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| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Spring Green's float entitled "The Century Limited," in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Sauk County's Centennial Queen float in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | L.C. Welsh Plumbing float entitled "Evolution of the Chamber Pot" in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Charles Enge, seventh from left, and supporters pose in front of the Al. Ringling Theatre. A sign on top of a car advertises his campaign for the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hawkins Service Station, located at 309 Seventh Avenue. The station has a pagoda style roof typical of stations designed between 1917 and 1930 by Alexande... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The storefront of the J.C. Penney store, 127 Third Street. There are summer clothes, hats, and shoes for men and women in the display windows. There is a h... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman pose in front of the L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating store, 137 Third Avenue. There are signs advertising Maytag and Shellane, "compres... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | An interior view of Pointon Appliance, 132 Fourth Avenue, showing a variety of Maytag washers, kitchen ranges, and water heaters. There are signs for Shell... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Four men pose in front of the Pointon Appliance store, 132 Fourth Avenue, located between the Al. Ringling Theatre and Trimpey Studio. Signs advertise Fri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Eight new Massie-Harris tractors are parked in the snow in front of the Martiny Implement Co., 147 Third Avenue. A crowd has gathered and men sit on the tr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A repair man checks a tire on a stand and a second inspects an inner tube while a customer looks on. Signs advertise Goodrich Tires, Bowes Seal Fast, and t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from cobblestone street of a man standing next to a police officer at the corner of Third and Oak Streets, in front of the Corner Drugstore. A horse-d... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barn, windmill and shed on the grounds of The Farm Kitchen, a restaurant near Baraboo and Devil's Lake State Park. Stones line a parking area, and a swin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from across street of a shirtless young man standing beside an automobile in the shade of a lean-to attached to the old Ringling Hotel. Signs on the t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a diner, showing two semi-circular counters with stools and booths along the walls. There is a jukebox on the right and a root beer bar... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the Al. Ringling Theatre from across 4th Street. Neighboring businesses include Pointon Appliance, and an antique shop. Several cars are parked alo... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu... |
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