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Automobile Dealerships

Date: 1945
Description: The Du Bois and Kieffer Hudson dealership, and Philbrick Motors, a Willys dealership, which shared a building at 137 Third Avenue. There is a Phillips 66 g...
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Scheible and Dyrud Funeral Home

Date: 1940
Description: View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,...
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Badger Army Ordnance Plant Housing

Date: 1945
Description: View from road of vines and flower boxes brightening an otherwise unremarkable row of barracks type housing. There is an A & P Food Store on the right, wit...
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Schwartz Farm Equipment

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior from street of the Schwartz Farm Equipment building, 135 Third Avenue. Show windows in the one-story brick building feature an International truck...
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Parts Department

Date: 1937
Description: The parts counter and display at a General Motors dealership. Merchandise on display includes parts and accessories by Buick, Chevrolet, and Prestone, as ...
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Al. Ringling Theatre

Date: 1939
Description: Fourth Avenue, showing the ornate Al. Ringling Theatre, Ryan Hickethier & Co, "A Sears Associated Store," and a portion of the Trimpey Studios storefront. ...
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Trimpey Antiques

Date: 05 1946
Description: Mr. Trimpey creates a self-portrait while photographing the window of his antique shop at 128 Fourth Avenue. The window display features dolls from the col...
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Elevated View of Clark Street

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view north along Clark Street with pedestrians, street cars, trucks and automobiles. Lincoln Park is on the right; the Belden Stratford Hotel is o...
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Island Woolen Mill Dam

Date: 1925
Description: The Island Woolen Mill dam and bridge over the Baraboo River. In the foreground is a concrete "pergola" which shades a small bench. Molded into a concrete ...
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Tire Repair Department

Date: 1940
Description: A repair man checks a tire on a stand and a second inspects an inner tube while a customer looks on. Signs advertise Goodrich Tires, Bowes Seal Fast, and t...
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Wooded Lane

Date: 1935
Description: A man stands at the end of a country lane lined with trees and carpeted with leaves. The trees overhead form a Gothic arch. The top of a wooden fence and g...
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Corner Drugstore

Date: 1940
Description: View from cobblestone street of a man standing next to a police officer at the corner of Third and Oak Streets, in front of the Corner Drugstore. A horse-d...
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Bank of Baraboo

Date: 1920
Description: An imposing two-story structure on the corner of Oak Street and Third Avenue. Lawyers offices occupy the upstairs.
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Service Station

Date: 1925
Description: A large sign identifies the Deep Rock service station at 132 Fifth Avenue. Another sign advertises "Kant-Nock" gasoline. There are large piles of snow lini...
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Al. Ringling Theatre

Date: 1926
Description: View from across street of the ornate terra cotta facade of the Al. Ringling Theatre, with advertisements for Rex (The Wonder Horse) in the silent movie, "...
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Berkley Chevrolet

Date: 1930
Description: The Berkley Chevrolet dealership, 224 Third Avenue, housed in a two-story brick building with Red Crown Gasoline pumps in front. Signs in the window advert...
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Gas Station

Date: 1930
Description: A highly detailed, brick, storybook style Pennsylvania Oil Co. gas station with a slate roof. There is a large chimney on the left and several gas pumps. M...
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Philbrick Garage

Date: 1930
Description: Five trucks loaded with tires are parked in front of the Philbrick Garage, a Ford and Lincoln dealership at 207 Third Avenue. Boxes on the far right truck ...
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Energee Gas Station

Date: 1930
Description: View from street of a cement block building housing an Energee brand gas station and Ben Doty's Tire Service. Next door on the left is Mueller's Garage, a ...
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Beer Truck

Date: 1932
Description: A Ford "sedan delivery" truck owned by Feinberg Distributing Co. of Baraboo is parked in front of the Philbrick Ford Garage at 207 Third Avenue. "Blatz Bee...

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