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Warren House Hotel

Date: 1930
Description: Cars are parked along the side of the Warren Hotel, 102 Fourth Avenue at the corner of Oak Street. The hotel is a large two and one half-story stone struct...
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Morley Avenue

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Description: View down Morley Avenue, lined with stores and small businesses. A stone building at right is labeled 'Escalada Bros.'; it was established in 1892 by the ...
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Street Scene, Salinas, California

Date: 1905
Description: View down a city street. Men and women walk past stores, restaurants, and Monterey County Bank, established in 1890.
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Pendarvis House Menu

Date: 1935
Description: Menu of Cornish pasties and desserts offered by Pendarvis House, a group of restored stone houses built by Cornish settlers in Mineral Point. The cover of ...
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Prospect Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: View down Prospect Avenue, with men sitting on a bench by the "Steponet" gas pumps in front of a storefront. A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the b...
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Sauk City Main Street

Date: 1924
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a soda shop/confectioner, with two women and a baby carriage on the sidewalk in front. Further down is a ch...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left a group of men are gathered on the sidewalk near a drinking fountain which is in front of a brick building wit...
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Scene on Main Street

Date: 1926
Description: View from road of a service station on the left with gas pumps. Next door is a meat market, a restaurant and a bank. A man is standing in front of the serv...
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Main Street

Date: 1925
Description: View down Main Street. On the left are two children standing on a stoop near a large drinking fountain. Down the block is a man standing in front of a 5&10...
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Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke...
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The Hub

Date: 12 02 1934
Description: View from across street of the facade of the Kronke building on West Mifflin Street. From the left, businesses are the Maiden Beauty Shop, Menges Pharmacy,...
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University of Wisconsin YMCA

Date: 1921
Description: View from Langdon Street of the University of Wisconsin YMCA on the shore of Lake Mendota. On the porch of the building is a large "Cafeteria" sign. Anothe...
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Business District

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a city block lined with businesses on the right. The State Bank is in the foreground on the right, and a restaurant is next d...
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The Simeon Mills Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across King Street towards The Gallery Inn restaurant, on the left, and the Buy Sell shop with a show window on the corner of King and Webster streets...
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Red & White Hamburgers and Mulberry Bush Women's Clothing

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Henry Street towards several buildings at the corner of State Street. From left to right is a private residence, Red & White Hamburgers, ...
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Belle Osborn Building from North Henry Street

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Henry Street towards the rear of the Belle Osborn building (left) and a wood frame house (right). The house is the backside of Parthenon ...
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Johnson Street View of Rentschler Floral Company and Charming Lady Beauty Salon

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Johnson Street towards a commercial building. The ground floor has a show window for Rentschler Floral Company. A sign above the second fl...
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Grantshire Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Carroll Street, on the corner of West Dayton Street, towards the Grantshire Block. The Grantshire Restaurant is on the ground floor and t...
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Floyd Brown Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Gilman Street toward the Floyd Brown Building, which contained Brown's Restaurant. A sign in the window reads: "Yes We're Open." A sign on...
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First Wisconsin National Bank Operations Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across North Hamilton Street, on the corner of North Pinckney Street, towards the front of the First Wisconsin National Bank Operations Building. The ...

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