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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the neoclassical Gay Building, named after Madison developer Leonard W. Gay, at 16 N Carroll Street, one of the first high-rise buildings ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view north of Wells Street with a bridge on the right. Two large smokestacks, and a tall building with a clock break up the skyline. On the left is a bil... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the building, with main arched entrance on the left. There is a bridge on the left over the river. Caption reads: "Pabst Building, Milwau... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the building. Two trolleys are on the road and in the foreground is a bridge over the river. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Urban street view including cars, pedestrians and streetcar. Caption reads: "Pettitcoat Lane." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of East Broadway, a wide road in the business district. The street has tall stone and brick buildings as well as broad sidewalks. Many horse... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of warehouse district east of downtown. Tall brick buildings including the Alton Mercantile Company stand next to wide streets with sidewalks... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Hotel Victory. The hotel has an inner courtyard, towers, and flags flying on top of the towers. People are milling around the building and... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. City buildings stretch as far as the horizon. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. Several boats and ships sail down the river and industrial buildings and skyscrapers stand in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Street scene featuring automobiles and a trolley car. The street is lined with pedestrians and storefronts. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of Solombola from Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia. In the distance are series of cranes. In the foreground on the ice are stacks of logs near a pier m... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over pier made of pilings towards a floating drydock, now embedded in the ice, near Solombola, Russia. There are tall buildings behind it on the oppos... |
| Date: | 07 1980 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips in a large group portrait of mostly women. The women are wearing dresses and coats and have name tags on their lapels. A building with large g... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting residents, automobiles and streetcars. Caption reads: "Lapeer St. & Genesee Ave. Saginaw, Mich." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, in his U.S. Navy dress blues uniform, posing and standing on a metal railing on the platform of a tall structure, possibly a lighthouse o... |
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