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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking toward the University of Wisconsin, with the 200 block in the foreground. The marquee for the Capitol Theatre reads "'Jealousy,' ... |
| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Paul E. Stark Co. building, 124 W. Mifflin Street. The view also includes the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Life Insur... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Rennebohm Drug Store #1 at the corner of University Avenue and Randall Avenue, which replaced Rennebohm's first store located just across the street. A... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
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| Description: | Corner of Grove and Mineral Streets with cars parked along the road. Storefronts line the streets. The Goodwill store, a used car dealership and a water to... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ... |
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| Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric lines hang over the street. Sign in window reads: "J.B. Thompson Lawyer." |
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| Description: | View down Main Street including light traffic and shop fronts in large brick buildings. |
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| Description: | Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal... |
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| Description: | View across intersection of the business district featuring the 'largest post clock in the United States,' located on the corner of Washington Avenue and M... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagon in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration through downtown. The horse bears signs that read "1946 One Horse Pay!" and "1846 One Hor... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of protestors and law enforcement officers walk along the sidewalk across the street from a Woolworth's department store during a Freedom Summer de... |
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| Description: | View from street of the Hotel Lewis and other buildings on along the left. The hotel has a large front porch, with men relaxing in rocking chairs. A mail c... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke... |
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| Description: | If we could look forward? If they could have looked forward? at what kind of life along what kind of dotted lines? At the top of the stairs, t... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street of the construction to expand the Schoelkopf building at 210-216 E. Washington Avenue. Men from the construction company a... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across East Main Street towards the Suhr building. On the left is an entrance and show windows for the Huegel-Hyland shoe store during its Going Out o... |
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