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Elephants in Circus Parade

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Description: Several elephants walk up a hill in a circus parade along Main Street. They are followed by a group of horses, while bystanders watch from a platform on t...
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Parks House

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Description: Group portrait of people, family and visitors, on the sidewalk in front of Parks House. Five women and two men are posing on the corner, and one woman is h...
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Syttende Mai Parade

Date: 05 16 1954
Description: Mrs. Walter Eggleson and her three children, Gudron, Jo Ellen, and Sally dressed in Norwegian costumes for the annual Syttende Mai parade in Stoughton.
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Grape Boycott Picketers — Contact Sheet

Date: 1969
Description: Four frames from a contact sheet containing images of grape boycott picketers. The picketers are in front of a Krogers grocery store. In frame 34, Sandi Ut...
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Lily White Laundry International Fleet Trucks

Date: 09 14 1928
Description: A fleet of three "Lily White Laundry" International trucks are staggered at an angle in the street. There is a driver in the driver's seat of each truck, a...
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Petersburg Business District

Date: 1922
Description: View across street of commercial buildings, with a tree-lined hill in the far background. A group of men and women are standing on the porch of the brick b...
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General Store

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Description: View across street of the General Store. A group of five men, two women, and three children are standing in front. with a windmill is in the back and a sta...
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Main Street Looking South

Date: 1911
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a storefront with large display windows and a barrel near the entrance. In front is a horse and buggy hitch...
Postcard

Flood Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign...
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Advance Party of the British Relief Expedition

Date: 1918
Description: British troops with a regimental band marching into a Russian town. Leading the way ahead of the troops are a group of boys, and closer to the large buildi...
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Winter Street Scene

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Description: View down snow-covered path towards a woman pushing a child in a sleigh buggy. Location identified as probably looking from Third Street past the 1897 scho...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Men and Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group of men and children. The children, boys and girls, are standing on a wooden sidewalk in front of a picket fence, and a li...
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Chicago and North Western Railroad Station

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the South Madison Chicago and North Western Railroad Station located next to the railroad tracks that cross Lakeside Street. In the foregr...
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Father and Son

Date: 1918
Description: A smiling Herbert Edmund Brumder (1917-1966) looking over the shoulder of his father Herbert Paul Brumder (1885-1962), the youngest son of publisher and bu...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Alice and Richard Welch, 4410 Bouldeer Terrace, are welcomed home with their new baby girl, Andrea, by their three sons, Jon (7), Daniel (5) and Stephen (3...

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