Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si... |
Date: | 09 26 1946 |
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Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy, explaining what happens to uranium as atomic power is produced. |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha... |
Date: | 03 02 1947 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Kelly's Prescription Shop. A small display about cancer is in the display window on the left; a sign welcoming guests is on the right. |
Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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Description: | A delivery boy straddles his bicycle, ready to make a delivery of medicine for the Pekin Prescription Laboratory. |
Date: | 07 09 1970 |
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Description: | Picket line of striking Northwest Airlines ticket agents and office workers who were represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. |
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Description: | The tugboat Ashland with several passengers visible on deck. |
Date: | 01 07 1937 |
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Description: | A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
Date: | |
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Description: | An electric streetcar in Milwaukee with a large Gimbels sign in the background. |
Date: | 01 17 1927 |
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Description: | Elevated view of cars lining up at Pennco filling (gas) station at the corner of State and Gorham Streets to get free crankcase draining and "Oak" Motor Oi... |
Date: | 11 20 1927 |
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Description: | At one time known as the "official" state printer, the Democrat Printing Company was located at the corner of Carroll and Doty streets. |
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: | 11 28 1927 |
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Description: | View of the 3 F Laundry on the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, with Holmes Tire, 614 University Avenue, and the Wheeler Conservatory of Music,... |
Date: | 11 28 1927 |
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Description: | View of the Lawrence Restaurant, located at 662 State Street. |
Date: | 08 07 1928 |
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Description: | Robert Mitchell's Madison service station, 529 University Avenue. During the 1920s service stations evolved from curb-side shacks to more attractive buildi... |
Date: | 12 02 1929 |
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Description: | Scaffolding rises on the State Bank of Wisconsin, 1 West Main Street, as an addition is constructed. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street in ... |
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