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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Woman on crutches entering the front office of the uranium tunnel to receive a uranium treatment. Several men sitting in front of the storefront on benches... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A view down State Street looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | King Street, looking past the Majestic Theater, with the Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. |
| Date: | 07 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Millard's Tavern, 504 East Wilson Street with Fauerbach CB beer sign and "Bobby Hodges radio & TV star, Every Friday Night." Also shows Marty's Sandwich Sh... |
| Date: | 04 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Joyce Smith Gaines' Drug Shop. |
| Date: | 07 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior of stores on State Street, including Sandra Hat Shop, 101 State Street; The Perfume Shop, 103 State Street; Olson's Dress Shop, 105 State Street a... |
| Date: | 03 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Night view of the "Mifflin Arcade" with terra cotta facade. Businesses include Silver Dollar Tavern at 117 West Mifflin Street, Sibyl Hats at 119 West Miff... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View from Capitol Square Park of the Belmont Hotel and nearby buildings. Includes the storefronts for Simpson's and Rennebohm Drug Store #6, at 19 North Pi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of cars parked alongside businesses on Third Street. Bassett's Drugstore is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of a sales agent showing a farmer a new McCormick Farmall H tractor alongside a storefront of a local IH dealership. In the background a... |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Bus traveling down Mifflin Street on Capitol Square. Moseleys, Woldenbergs and Walgreen's Drugs are on the right. |
| Date: | 12 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Neon lights up Wisconsin Avenue on a winter night in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench. |
| Date: | 09 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates standing in the doorway of the weekly Arkansas State Press, the newspaper founded by Mrs. Bates and her husband, L.C. Bates. As a result... |
| Date: | 08 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Stemp Typewriter Company, located at 528 State Street, featuring the entire front view of the building, including sign "Stemps Adding Machines, expert repa... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Construction workers erecting a billboard for Hines Lumber using a crane mounted on the back of an International heavy-duty truck. The billboard is sitting... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | S.S. Kresge storefront and Miller's clothing store on Main Street. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an International R-205 Sleeper Cab Truck with closed top van semi-trailer outside a Farmall dealership. The truck is parked next to a man operating... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International SM Model Mounting Metro-Van featuring the Metro-Lite Body. The truck was owned and operated by Advanced Cleaners and ... |
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