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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | The residence of Carrie Jacobs Bond. Caption reads: "Residence of Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville, Wis." Text in center reads: "Where she wrote 'I Love You ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Bond historical site marker, marking the home where Carrie Jacobs Bond wrote "I Love You Truly." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Frances Willard School house built in 1853. The image of a bow is printed on the left. Caption reads: "The Francis E. Willard School, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The Grand Hotel. Caption reads: "Grand Hotel, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View down left side of street towards the right side of the street. A man is on a horse-drawn wagon in the left foreground. Storefronts are on the right. C... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Tallman Homestead Marker. There are automobiles parked along the curb in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Van Pool Brothers office, where the Master Builders' Association of Wisconsin was founded. Caption reads: "Birthplace of Master Builders ... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Employees of the General Motors plant in head to work. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Hotel Myers, in downtown Janesville. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there until his father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones moved th... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Street scene with pedestrians near Milwaukee Street bridge. The Hotel Myers is in the background. The Lappin-Hayes Block is seen to the right of the Myer... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rock River, with a large smokestack and water tower on the left. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there u... |
| Date: | 07 17 1909 |
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| Description: | Field trip to Emma Willard's home near Janesville by the 18th annual convention of the Loyal Temperance League of Wisconsin. The sign on one of the wagons... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Looking east down East Milwaukee Street. Commercial intersection in downtown, with pedestrians walking across the street over street-railroad tracks. The ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians and automobiles downtown. A street-railroad track runs down the middle of the road. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street. |
| Date: | 05 1981 |
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| Description: | Former Harrison OK Used Car lot, Center Avenue (US Highway 51). |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Union veterans, some holding a banner reading "Iron Brigade," marching on a downtown street in a parade during a state encampment. |
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