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Street Scene

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Description: View down dirt road towards the Lappley Bros. Lumber Yard. There are houses on the right and in the far background. There are horses and carriages parked a...
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Tearing down Eau Claire House

Date: 1920
Description: Tearing down Eau Claire House to make way for the Y.M.C.A. building. A man is standing on the roof. A sign in the street reads, in part: "Electric Light He...
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Forest House

Date: 1875
Description: The Forest House, a hotel, restaurant and stage office. It was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Dingle and was located on the corner of Third and Forest S...
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Polk County Press Office

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior stereograph of the Polk County Press Office, with three men standing near the entrance, and three children sitting on the left on the board sidewa...
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Farm Equipment Workers Union Mass Meeting

Date: 11 05 1945
Description: Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: Main Street, where two young girls walk on the sidewalk, and a horse and carriage and two cars are parked in the street. There is a townhouse complex on th...
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Great Western Oil Company Truck

Date: 03 13 1925
Description: A Model 103 International truck owned by the Great Western Oil Company of Cleveland, Ohio parked on a cobblestone street in a residential area. A man stand...
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Support for Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
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International Scout Parked Near Mailbox

Date: 09 04 1962
Description: Three-quarter view from front of driver's side of an International Scout parked by mailbox. A man in the driver's seat is putting a letter into the mailbox...
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Need Two Tickets

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View down grassy lawn bordered by trees towards two men wearing suits who are walking along a metal barricade blocking the sidewalk and street on the righ...
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Veronica Macias

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Veronica Macias, a reporter for TMJ4, standing across the street from the Milwaukee Theater. She is holding a microphone in one hand and a smart phone in t...
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Reporting the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young male reporter for WFRV-TV Local 5 is holding a microphone and talking to the camera, which is operated by a camera operator standing in the foregro...
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Captain America Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Two women are operating cameras recording a reporter who is holding a microphone up to another man, Todd Eiler, dressed as Captain America. Todd holds a si...
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Moving Van Parked Outdoors

Date: 08 10 1926
Description: A moving van is parked along the curb in front of a building with signs that read: "John Clark & Sons, Storage Warehouses."
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Grocery Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: Fleet of grocery delivery trucks backed up to a building with a sign that reads: "A.W. & H.H. Behrens Wholesale Grocers." One man is sitting in the driver'...
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Shore Road Vans

Date: 04 27 1929
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked along a curb. The signs painted on the side of the truck read: "Shore Road,...
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Man Driving Paulin's Biscuits & Candy Track

Date: 08 08 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a truck. The back of the truck is stacked high with cardboard boxes. The sign on the side of the truck bed reads: ...
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Truck in Neighborhood

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked in a neighborhood. Another man is standing near the open window of the pass...

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