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Picketing Gimbel's

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store.
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Buildings On East Main Street

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Description: Buildings located in the first block of East Main Street. Businesses in the image include Gleason Hardware and the Madison Institute. Two men on horseback ...
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East Main Street Buildings

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Description: John S. Fuller took this photographs of the buildings in the first block of East Main Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol roof. Most of the businesses ...
Photograph

Westgate Parking Lot

Date: 07 30 1960
Description: Elevated view of the parking lot at the Westgate Shopping Center. The storefronts are on the left, and include Ragatz Shoes, Three Sisters, ?obil Shoes, S....
Photograph

Friend Brothers Clothing Company Building

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Description: The southeast corner of the Friend Brothers Clothing Company at N. Broadway and E. Michigan Street.
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W.M. Steinmeyer Co.

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Description: W.M. Steinmeyer grocery building at the southeast corner of N. 3rd Street and W. Highland Avenue.
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Snow-Covered Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene with snow-covered street car. A sign on the storefront behind the street car reads: "[Wool]worth Co. 5 and 10".
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Gagliano Florist Shop

Date: 1938
Description: A sidewalk view down 318 North Jefferson Street with Sebatian Gagliano's Florist Shop in the foreground. Several people stroll on the sidewalk.
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Borden's Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Juan B. Marquez, driver of an International L-150 truck for Borden's Fine Dairy Products, delivers a crate of dairy products to El Aguila Groceries. The bu...
Poster

Travel By Train Travel Poster: Fifth Avenue, New York

Date: 1932
Description: An original lithograph promoting Fifth Avenue in New York as "The World's Greatest Shopping Street," and to get there by way of the train. The poster depic...
Photograph

Congress and First Street Junction

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of the junction of Congress and First Streets downtown, featuring cars, pedestrians, storefronts, and railroad tracks.
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A Business Street

Date: 1900
Description: View along left side sidewalk toward shops and businesses lining a commercial street. A large sign outside a shop on the left reads: "Wholesale Wallpaper, ...
Photograph

Downtown Circus Parade

Date: 1963
Description: An International CO-192 truck leads a 25-piece circus parade through downtown streets. The parade originated at Circus World Museum in Baraboo. Additional ...
Photograph

National Biscuit Company Truck

Date: 1925
Description: Two men stand at the rear of a Model 43 International truck owned by William Millard and equipped with a National Biscuit Company body. The truck is parked...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1923
Description: A retail street at the intersection of East Oat Avenue. Cars and trucks are parked in the middle of the street. The shops are: a drugstore, Guernsey's Bake...
Photograph

Lower End of Main Street

Date: 1923
Description: A retail street at the intersection of East Oat Avenue. Cars are parked in the middle of the street. The shops are: a restaurant, Guernsey's Bakery, a drug...
Photograph

Cuba City Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down a commercial street. An International truck is parked in the foreground on the left, and on the corner on the right is the Red Crown Gasoline sta...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: View down Main Street. A group of women are looking in store windows on the right.
Photograph

MGM Trackless Train

Date: 08 1945
Description: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Trackless Train" turning onto North Carroll Street from West Mifflin Street. The "Trackless Train" was on a tour from New York to ...
Postcard

Looking North on Main Street

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Description: Colorized postcard of Main Street. On the left is E.J. Anthony, Barber, with a barber pole in front of the building. Other businesses can be seen, many wit...

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