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| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
| Date: | 11 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ... |
| Date: | 11 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 12 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men and Home Insulation of Madison, Inc. truck in front of W.J. Sheppard, 2524 Chamberlain Avenue, house, shown installing Johns Manville rock-wool ins... |
| Date: | 01 17 1934 |
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| Description: | A Johns-Manville Contractors Asbestos Products Company Rock Wool home insulation truck and trailer is parked in front of a house, with workers on ladders a... |
| Date: | 09 12 1931 |
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| Description: | A&W Root Beer Stand at 900 South Park Street, with employees in uniforms posing inside and in front of the building. |
| Date: | 06 15 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Madison Dairy Produce Building, with employees standing on the sidewalk in front of the building. Located at 1018 East Washi... |
| Date: | 09 07 1946 |
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| Description: | 19 employees (entire sales force) standing in front of Winnebago Auto Parts Replacement Parts Company, 103 North Park Street. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a 1909 International Auto Wagon with an enclosed body belonging to Dolton Bakery. |
| Date: | 04 13 1926 |
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| Description: | International Model 63 moving truck parked in a residential neighborhood. Text on the side of the truck reads: "Ben Butler Furniture and Piano Moving." |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two men load or unload furniture from an Allied Van Lines moving truck parked in a residential driveway. The truck's lettering reads: "Long Distance Moving... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A driver sits behind the wheel of an International truck loaded with boxes from the Marion Baking Company. The truck is on a cobblestone street with cable ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
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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: | 04 10 1941 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men working among stripped trees in a demolition area on Kilbourn Avenue. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Storefronts on Monroe Street, including Henry Esch Faville's Photography Shop at 1726 Monroe Street. Also shown is: George Burrowbridge, Barber, 1724 Monro... |
| Date: | 01 03 1939 |
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| Description: | A man empties a garbage can into the back of an International D-300 truck parked in a residential neighborhood near houses. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | View across street of Robert Bloch posing as a drunk in New Orleans, during Gauer and Bloch's trip there to write a book. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | A man stands next to an automobile in front of Du Bois Super Service at 1 North Mills Street (at the Corner of Regent Street), owned by Louis A. Du Bois. A... |
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