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Snow Removal after a Storm

Date: 02 1933
Description: Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard.
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Windsled "Hurricane Hazel"

Date: 1946
Description: Windsled "Hurricane Hazel" on Chequamegon. One man is sitting in the windsled, Another man is standing on the ice.
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Harrison House

Date: 1915
Description: "Gen." Wooster Harrison house. Sign in front reads, "Lincolns Abode/West Wing/1835".
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Shawano Airport

Date: 1951
Description: Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport i...
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200 Block of State Street in Winter

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si...
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Warner and his Factory

Date: 1910
Description: Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom...
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United States Sugar Company Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks on Atwood Avenue. The building was occupied in 1980 by Garver Feed & Suppl...
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Peshtigo Train Depot

Date: 1920
Description: View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s...
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100 Block of State Street

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene of the north side of the 100 Block State Street with the Unique Shop, Popcorn Shop, G & A Jewelers, Drugstore, Keeley's and the Wisconsin Stat...
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View of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Storefront

Date: 1929
Description: Storefront of Sears, Roebuck and Co. on State Street, with snow-covered streets and snow topped automobiles.
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First Central Station

Date: 1882
Description: Building housing the very first central electric light station for distribution of incandescent lighting. The sign on the building reads: "Vulcan St."
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Wisconsin House

Date: 1900
Description: Front view of the Wisconsin House. The brick portion was erected in about 1850. The entire building was razed by 1915, before the Ringling Theatre was buil...
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Main Street

Date: 1908
Description: View of Main Street. The handwriting on the photograph reads: "Main St. West from Park Hotel Berlin Wis."
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Horses and Carriages Outside Storefronts

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of horses and carriages parked on Black Earth's main thoroughfare. Snow is on the ground.
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Luther Hall

Date: 1920
Description: View of Luther Hall, built in about 1850 or 1860.
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Chetek Street

Date: 1905
Description: View down a snow-covered unpaved street in Chetek. Horse-drawn vehicles are along the right, and commercial buildings line both sides of the street. There ...
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Proxmire Walking Through Wisconsin in Winter

Date: 12 22 1972
Description: Senator William Proxmire walked thousands of miles in Wisconsin to meet constituents. Here he is, in a snowmobile suit, shaking hands with a woman outside ...
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Pennsylvania Oil Company Service Station

Date: 01 16 1927
Description: View across State Street toward cars lining up at Pennco filling (gas) station at the corner of State and Gorham Streets to get free crankcase draining and...
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Tony's Tavern

Date: 03 1960
Description: Exterior front view of Tony Urso's Westside Palm Tavern located at 730-736 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. Typewritten sheet with pho...
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Iola Street

Date: 02 12 1970
Description: State Highway 51 in Iola, Wisconsin, primarily showing the Fire Department and its siren.

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