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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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Description: Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F...
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Pioneer Block before the Fire

Date: 1880
Description: Three or four-story brick building, with a "Drug Book Store" sign at the front, and a stair wrapping around the side of the building up to a balcony. A man...
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Main Street

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Description: Main Street from the Park Hotel.
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Sidewalk with Snow

Date: 1876
Description: Stereograph. Winter scene of a residential area, looking down a snowy sidewalk near a retaining wall and a fence in Milwaukee, with a horse-drawn carriage...
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Cream Separator at Farmhouse

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove...
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Academic Hall at the Missouri State Normal School

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Description: Elevated view of the Academic Hall, completed in 1902. The large, stone building was erected on the campus of the Missouri State Normal School, founded in ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Description: Elevated view of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870. The building, completed in 1880, features neoclassical architecture. In front of the muse...
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Main Street

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Description: Photographic postcard of Main Street. People, automobiles, and horse-drawn vehicles line the dirt-covered street and sidewalks. A Gold Medal Flour billboar...
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Patrons' Mercantile Company

Date: 1925
Description: View from street of the Patrons' Mercantile Company consumer cooperative. A group of men stand outside the building. A row of horses and carriages are park...
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Patrons' Mercantile Company

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Description: View across street of the Patrons' Mercantile Company. The awnings advertise "general merchandise" and "harness and hardware." There are three horses and c...
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Business District

Date: 1909
Description: A street scene at the post office. The post office houses J.E. James Childs Cabinets. One man stands at the doorpost and three men sit on makeshift seats o...
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Residential Main Street

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Description: View down residential Main Street. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles pass the First Congregational Church, a building with a colonnaded entrance and c...
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Post Office and Johnson's Store

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Description: View of the post office and Johnson's Store, located in a rural setting. A man carries goods in a horse-drawn wagon. Published by E. Vosseller Stationer.
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Carriage in Alley

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Description: A man steers a horse-drawn carriage down an alley as two others look on from a doorway. The photograph was taken in Saint George, Bermuda.
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Street Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Men and women ascend a staircase toward a shoe store as horses and carriages travel along the street below. The sign on the store reads, "Victor LaFrance R...
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Main Street

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Description: A view down Main Street. Shops are on either side of the street. Farmer's Bank is down the hill on the right.
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Prospect Street

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Description: View down Prospect Street, a dirt road, featuring the construction of a brick corner building. Two men look on from the steps of their home across the str...
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Tower Tree

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Description: View of the clock tower of the Decatur County Courthouse, built from 1854-1860. The tree growing from the top of the tower was first noticed in the early ...
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City Hall and Jail

Date: 1910
Description: View of Athens City Hall, built in 1903-1904, featuring a central dome and clock tower. A water tower can be seen beyond the city jail to the left.
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Pilgrim Hall

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Description: Exterior of Pilgrim Hall in a town setting. A horse and carriage waits outside the museum with a colonnaded porch.

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