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Watching Escaped Monkeys

Date: 11 25 1960
Description: Dan Watson, left, director of the Vilas Park Zoo, and fireman Don Annen attempting to capture two rhesus monkeys in the tree tops. Annen is holding a tran...
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White Christmas

Date: 12 1970
Description: Fresh snow covers everything on a city street at Christmas time.
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Officer Helps Children Cross Street

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Description: A uniformed police officer is holding hands with three children. They are standing in a crosswalk at the corner of Spring and Main streets. Behind them on ...
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"Very Accidental" Intersection

Date: 1937
Description: View of curve in unpaved road, with a guard rail on the right. There is erosion underneath trees just beyond the curve of the road. A road sign on the righ...
Photograph

Maxwell Street Days

Date: 07 18 1998
Description: Elevated view from State and Broom Streets of shoppers on State Street during the Maxwell Street Days sale.
Postcard

Lincoln Street North

Date: 04 07 1921
Description: Text on front reads: "Lincoln Street North, Rio, Wis." An unpaved main street with cement sidewalks and crosswalks. There are buildings and storefronts on ...
Postcard

Beloit High School

Date: 03 19 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "High School, Beloit, Wis." A three-story, brick building with stone ornamentation, surrounded by sidewalks and trees.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1932
Description: Caption reads: Main Street, Soldiers Grove, Wis." The main street of a small town with businesses on each side. Automobiles and trucks are parked at the cu...
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Helping Child Touch the Lamp Post

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Description: Caption reads: "Cambridge, Wis. Policeman holding child up to let her touch the umbrella on the "lamp post" which is the community's "trade-mark"."
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Razing Old House on Milwaukee Street

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Description: View across intersection towards several people standing outside a building that is partially demolished. A nearby sign advertises the Union House. Caption...

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