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Breese Stevens Field

Date: 05 15 1931
Description: Breese Stevens Athletic Field, with lights on tall poles, and a chain link fence along the sidewalk. View looking toward E. Washington Avenue with Simon Br...
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Manitowoc Seating Company

Date: 1900
Description: Engraved bird's-eye view of the wood shop, warehouse, machine shop, dry kilns, and foundry of the Manitowoc Seating Company. Several people pass in front o...
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Edward J. Brandt Dent Co. Building

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Description: View from road of facade of the company building of the Brand Automatic Cashier. A shed on the left has advertisements for: "Bull Durham for Pipe or Cigare...
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Elevated View of Industrial District

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Description: Elevated view of industrial section of town showing railroad tracks, brick warehouses, smokestacks and the mountains on the outskirts of town in the backgr...
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East of Downtown

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of warehouse district east of downtown. Tall brick buildings including the Alton Mercantile Company stand next to wide streets with sidewalks...
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Marty's Warehouse

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Description: View of Marty's Warehouse from across railroad tracks. The warehouse building has large signs of painted lettering advertising the storage facilities. Rail...
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks of a locomotive pulling into a railroad depot and yards. The depot is a two-story building. Two wagons are parked near the depot ...
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Railroad Tracks and Depot

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Description: View down railroad tracks. On the left, there is a two-story, octagonal hut. On the right, there is a railroad station with a Western Union sign. Industria...
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Tobacco Warehouse Which Pay Annually $12,000 for Labor

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Description: View across unpaved road of the front of a brick two-story tobacco warehouse. Three men are posed standing on the stoop in front of the door. A barefoot gi...
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Rock Spring Cold Storage; Exterior

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Description: Outdoor view of a three-story brick building with a smokestack. Writing on the negative reads: "Rock Spring Cold Storage, Rock, Rock." Identified as Rock S...
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Quaker Oats Barn

Date: 10 08 1945
Description: A barn on the Quaker Oats farm on 4202 Monona Drive. A sign above the barn door reads: "Branch Warehouse of William Le[?] Warehouses, Public Bonded Warehou...
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Ship at Dock at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: View across water towards ship, the "Northman Fairport," at a dock at McCormick Works. Factory buildings are in the background. In the foreground is a wall...
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Ship at Dock at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline across water towards opposite shoreline where a ship is at the dock of McCormick Works. Factory buildings are in the background near sm...
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Fargo Creamery Supply House

Date: 1908
Description: View across unpaved street towards a two-story warehouse, with a smokestack in the back. Caption reads: "Fargo Creamery Supply House, 1908, Lake Mills, Wis...

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