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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Main Street, looking east at storefronts. Booths with flags and bunting are set up on the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Green Bay, Wis. Main Street, Looking Ea... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Main Street on the corner of Washington Street shops. Caption reads: "Main St, Cor Washington, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View looking down Washington Street with cable car, bicyclist and pedestrians walking along the sidewalks in downtown area. Caption reads: "Washington Stre... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | The Valley Motel and Colonial Restaurant at the intersection of Highways 41 and 29. This motel boasts that it has a large lighted swimming pool as well as ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) in a field. Left side profile view. Location is unknown but is probably Lawson Aviation Field in Green Bay. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Green Bay from the bay. Commercial and industrial buildings are in the foreground. Waterfront businesses include F. Hurlbut Cement and W.W. ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The Public Library, Carnegie Building 1902. There are steps up to the entrance, with a sign above the columns that reads: "Carnegie Building MDCCCCII" [190... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of the Cook Hotel, a four-story building with wrought iron balconies. Caption reads: "Cook Hotel, Green Bay, Wis." |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard of Hotel Northland. Caption reads: "Hotel Northland, Green Bay, Wisconsin." Text on reverse reads: "Hotel Northland, Green Bay, Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of a hotel on a corner. Sign above entrance reads: "1882 Broadway Hotel 1912". Caption reads: "Broadway Hotel, Green Bay, Wis." |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard of the Beaumont Hotel. Balconies are over the entrance and awnings are over the windows. Caption reads: "Beaumont Hotel, Green Bay, Wi... |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Beaumont Hotel. Automobiles are parked at the curb and a traffic light is at the corner. Caption reads: "Beaumont Hotel, Green Ba... |
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| Description: | Ektochrome postcard of a roadside motel, with white fencing along the entrance. There is a phone booth at the edge of the parking lot. Caption reads: "Pack... |
| Date: | 03 09 1918 |
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| Description: | View of a city sidewalk after a snow storm, with tall piles of snow along the curb. Men are walking along the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Green Bay's Worst S... |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Cook Hotel. There are rod iron balconies above the entrance, and fire escapes are on the side. Caption reads: "Cook Ho... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a green customized locomotive. Text on reverse reads: "Famous Dwight D. Eisenhower Locomotive #60008. Built in London and N.E.R.R. in ... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of Washington Street at an intersection. Commercial buildings are on both sides of the street, with automobiles parked along the cu... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view down street towards a shopping district, which is lined with shops: Walgreen's, Prange's, and Kinney Shoes. Automobiles are parked ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a shopping district lined with shops, and a theater on the left. A Prange's Department Store, and a Leath's furniture store is o... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view down a street in a main shopping district. Traffic signals are on the corners, and a large flag is hanging from the Beaumont Hotel ... |
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