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| Date: | 03 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding rises up the walls of the University Avenue National Bank, 905 University Avenue, with an unusual traffic signal in the intersection. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 1925 |
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| Description: | A church is in the distance at the end of the road. On either side of the street are homes and stores, with a street light suspended above the street in t... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a Ford sales and service center on the left, and a canning factory in the background. A man stands near a parked car, and behind h... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View across intersection of the exterior of the Shorb Hotel. Boys on bicycles are in the street in front near a man standing on the curb. Automobiles are p... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Storefronts line the main streets in Brewery Gulch. Paramount Pictures Theater can be seen in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from a pedestrian walkway looking towards the central business area. A concrete four-sided sign is in the center of intersection. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down street at intersection of commercial buildings on both sides. On the left is a drug store/soda fountain, restaurant and a cafe. On the right is a... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from street of City Hall building on a corner. There are garages in the back on the left. On the corner there is a stop sign, a Hwy 51 signpost, and a... |
| Date: | 12 31 1925 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards the north side of West Lakeside Street, looking west. Three known businesses are the South Side State Bank (4th from the... |
| Date: | 01 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a truck parked near the curb in front of a brick building with show windows. The signs painted on the side of the truck reads: "... |
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