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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Looking West on Main Ave." View down center of commercial area, with automobiles moving down the street, and parked along the curbs. A U.S.... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Panoramic print of factory. Six large smokestacks, several small ones, a flag, and a water tower decorate the rooftops. Horse-drawn vehicles are on the roa... |
| Date: | 06 22 1978 |
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| Description: | View of carnival with a water tower in the background. There are trailers, and a carousel is on the left. Carts selling food like popcorn and sausage are p... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester's Motor Truck Engineering Department. Original caption reads, in part: "...The company also operates a 160,000 sq.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A wooden chest with a sign "[illegible] Cement Work" stands on West Dayton Street near its intersection with Wisconsin Avenue. There is a bucket nearby, an... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the back stage area of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition at the State Fair Park. Permanent and temporary structures are visible, as are ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "American Legion Post 270 celebrates Memorial Day." |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of a variety of small railroad cars on a set of curved railroad tracks that are merging into railroad tracks that stretch to the horizon. In... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Sanitary Refrigerator Company of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, manufacturers of wood and steel refrigerators, with an elevated three-quarter vi... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Small group of elderly men, two of them bearing, respectively, a U.S. Flag, and a banner, perhaps a company roster. This may be a group of Civil War vetera... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View up hill towards a water tower with a flag flying from a pole at the top. Caption reads: "Water Tower, De Forest, Wis." |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards engineer Louis Peterson standing in the gangway next to Engine No. 931. Another man is standing on the tracks near one of... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored photomechanical view of Chetek. Chetek Lake is in the background on the right. The water tower is in the center. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye Vi... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk towards cars parked diagonally at the curb, with a row of storefronts on the left. Along the sidewalk are lampposts, each decorated with... |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a large building with a roofed porch. The front of the porch is covered heavily with vines. On the lawn in the foreground is a mow... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer plant. There is a water tower on the roof with a sign painted on it that reads: "Oscar Mayer." Automobiles are p... |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer employees are walking near the plant, down the entrance road near a chain link fence. There is a water tower and three American flags on three ... |
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