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Wrecked Safety Island

Date: 12 17 1931
Description: Wrecked pedestrian safety island, University Avenue and Francis Street, struck by the Rev. George E. Hunt.
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Wisconsin Highway Sign

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin State Highway sign along STH 11 near Galesville, one of a whole new vocabulary of signage created for automobile traffic. The inverted triangle w...
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Interstate I-43

Date: 1981
Description: Fond du Lac Avenue (State Highway 145) exit from Interstate I-43 in Milwaukee. As originally conceived, the interstate system in Wisconsin was to consist ...
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Highway County CTH "N"

Date: 06 01 1966
Description: Highway County CTH "N" looking southeast. The white building on the right is the Marathon Town Hall.
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Woolworth's Protestors and Law Enforcement Officers

Date: 1964
Description: A woman stands in the foreground looking at the camera, while behind her two law enforcement officers wearing helmets examine protestors during a Freedom S...
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Couple in Wheelchairs

Date: 2013
Description: A married couple, Carrie and Prentice Vaughn, riding together into the distance in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk on 7th Street. On the right is a large...
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Workmen and the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman

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Description: View down street towards men at work on a boarded-up building on a street corner. A city bus enters the street on the left. In the background is the Cathed...
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The Village Bar

Date: 06 2014
Description: View from automobile across an intersection towards the Village Bar at the corner of Mineral Point Road and Glenway Street. Cars are waiting at a street li...
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Waiting for the Train Once Again in DeKalb

Date: 12 26 2014
Description: A cargo train is passing over Lincoln Highway. The railroad crossing gate is down and the traffic lights are red. Behind the train, old brick buildings lin...
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Highway 41

Date: 05 1939
Description: View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state li...
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Spring Flood

Date: 1975
Description: A GMC truck and an automobile are splashing through a large puddle in a small town. The town's water tower is in the background.

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