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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View looking east up State Street from Johnson Street, with the Orpheum and Capitol theatres on either side of the street, and the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking east from Johnson Street, towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. On the corner on the left is Glasgow Tailers, and further up the b... |
| Date: | 11 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Oriental rug business owned by Solomon Gulessarian at 319 State Street. The Palace Barber Shop is next door on the right. |
| Date: | 08 01 1929 |
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| Description: | The old U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 4 East Mifflin Street, just months before it was torn down and replaced by Manchester's Department store. ... |
| Date: | 05 20 1930 |
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| Description: | The exterior of the Fox Strand Theatre on Mifflin Street, with the marquee advertising the "The Arizona Kid." |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | East Wilson Street, looking east from the King and Butler Streets intersection, with Rubin's Furniture at 302 East Wilson Street, Fitzgerald Electric at 30... |
| Date: | 07 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Looking south from railroad viaduct toward Greenbush. View is down newly widened and paved Park Street. The Roman Tavern, 46 North Park Street and Automobi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Roadside billboard for International motor trucks distributed by the Memphis Motor Car Company. The advertisement depicts an International truck axle. |
| Date: | 03 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Sherwood Avenue lined with parked cars and billboards advertising "Esso," "Miller Bros." restaurant, "Wrigley's" chewing gum, "Koester's Honey Bread" and o... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man in the driver's seat of an International Special Delivery dairy truck parked in front of billboards. The International Spe... |
| Date: | 01 08 1946 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along East Wilson Street at the corner of the South Hancock intersection looking toward the West Wilson Street-King Street intersection.... |
| Date: | 08 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Building at 327 State Street to be occupied by B.F. Goodrich (formerly Sherwin-Williams Paint store). Billboards include Coca-Cola, Sunshine Krispy Cracker... |
| Date: | 11 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the... |
| Date: | 10 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Looking east on University Avenue from the intersection with Grand Avenue, with the rear view of an automobile in the foreground. On the right is Samuel Fi... |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Front door of Lewis D-X Service Station at night, 118 King Street. Sign on door reads: "We meet the finest people in the world at this station --- our cust... |
| Date: | 05 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men servicing an automobile at the Lewis D-X Diamond Gas Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street. |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Farm Utilities Company, located at 124 S. Butler Street. (A Trachte building.) |
| Date: | 05 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Strand Theater, with marquee advertising Warner Baxter and Carol Lombard in "The Arizona Kid," and Collyer's Pharmacy, Kinney Shoes, and a Heinz billboard. |
| Date: | 05 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Sears Roebuck and Company store, 313-315 State Street, and The Vim sporting goods store, 317 State Street, with a sign painted on the side of its building. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of State Street with the Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. Included in the view is Dan's Shoe Repairing, New Place Cafe, Huegel & Hyland Shoe... |
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