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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
| Date: | 04 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Theresa Manderino [Mandarino?], Vincenza Raimond, and Mary Baldarotta [Baldarotto?] resting and posing on a low wall in front of Schumann's Store, as part ... |
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| Description: | View down street with three or four commercial buildings. On the right is a sign for a telephone pay station on a two-story clapboard building, and behind ... |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of men standing on the wooden sidewalk in front of the post office/general store. Above the door is a sign for the "Post Offi... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street. On the left is a storefront with large display windows and a barrel near the entrance. In front is a horse and buggy hitch... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Seven men, five in work clothes and two wearing suits pose on the steps in front of a wooden building, which is a machine shop, with large paned windows. O... |
| Date: | 11 19 1906 |
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| Description: | One-page supper menu from Café Martin, with a watercolor illustration by Louis Renault of a man and a woman walking down the sidewalk arm-in-arm, a driver... |
| Date: | 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Temporary building built after the fire in Burke that destroyed the Droster Brothers General Store. The Droster's bought out John Quilty's store, which in ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Lake Tomahawk Post Office, with a woman and two young girls posed in front. A sign painted on the side of the building advertises "Sod... |
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| Description: | A window washer named Art holding a cigarette and posing with his squeegee. He was a familiar sight on State Street. |
| Date: | 01 15 1987 |
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| Description: | View looking out window at a man who is washing the window. Caption reads: "Edgar Gordon spreads cleanliness and happiness." Edgar William Gordon was a ... |
| Date: | 10 1918 |
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| Description: | Three men are standing together on the front steps of the Von Platen Lumber building. W.A. Holt is on the right. Presumably one of these men is business ow... |
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