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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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Man inspecting the engine of an International Model H truck. The 201 cubic inch H engine featured an L-head design, with three main bearings and forced lub... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Four young men are stand up against a low stone wall displaying a small pennant with the word "Champions" on it. Two of the young men are holding baseball ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a parade on Michigan Avenue taken from the International Harvester building. Grant Park is in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | International tractor and other machines at an urban construction(?) site, probably in Chicago. Large city buildings are in the background. |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed man standing in urban alley fueling an International Model M motor truck through a funnel. |
| 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: | 07 11 1917 |
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| Description: | Church buildings in a town along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Original caption reads: "seminary church and buildings at Vyatka." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down a Petrograd (St. Petersburg) street with the Church of the Resurrection in the background. |
| 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: | 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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