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| Description: | View across field towards a factory where band instruments are manufactured. A water tower with "Holton Band Instruments" painted on it is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards the Fox River, with a farm in the foreground. The farm has a windmill with a sign on it that reads: "Kilbourn Steel Mill," ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View toward the mills with a water tower on the right. Caption reads: "The Badger Woolen Mills, Grafton, Wis." |
| Date: | 06 07 1924 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards a fleet of delivery trucks parked in front of a large brick building. A sign at the top of the building reads: "International Harv... |
| Date: | 03 26 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the IH Printing Plant. A man is standing near a truck parked at the loading dock on the left. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Kissel auto plant in between the railroad and the river. A dirigible and bi-plane have been cut and pasted onto the image. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 09 10 1925 |
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| Description: | View from side of road towards a man in the driver's seat of a delivery truck on a street. The sign on the front of the truck above the cab reads: "You Wre... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of downtown Milwaukee, with Lake Michigan in the background. The eight story 1920 addition to the Boston Store is in the foreground, ident... |
| Date: | 07 14 1926 |
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| Description: | View of farmyard with a truck attached to a wagon loaded with hay parked in front of a large barn. There are small barns along the left side of the large b... |
| Date: | 08 17 1926 |
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| Description: | View across lot towards the service department for International trucks. There is a truck parked nearby on the left. Behind the building is what may be a l... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Cars are parked on the street in front of the 1915 brick Parker Pen factory and office building. There is a large water tower on the left. The building was... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards automobiles parked in front of a two-story brick office building with a long, one story factory wing. There is a water tower beh... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a bus sitting in the driveway in front of a large factory complex, which has a water tower and three smokestacks. "Airport 2 Mi."... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View down street towards two buildings in the background that are part of the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, makers of Mirro cookware. The buildings... |
| Date: | 09 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a gasoline delivery truck parked in front of a brick building. The sign painted on the truck reads: "Fuel Oils, Deep-Rock, Shaffer Oil a... |
| Date: | 06 05 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Gillespie Grain Co. Ltd. truck, with an open truck bed loaded with sacks of oats. In the background is... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Glander Art Studio and the Glander Style Shop on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washington Streets. Second-story w... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Drawing by H.M. Pettit of an aerial view of Deering Works in Chicago. |
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| Description: | Tinted postcard view of crowds of people standing near a railroad train on the far right, and a train station in the center with a sign that reads: "Watert... |
| Date: | 12 17 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of an enclosed truck parked on an unpaved road. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "National ... |
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