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Driving Hogs Through Town

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Description: Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t...
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Sweet's Food Shop

Date: 08 28 1931
Description: Exterior view of Sweet's Food Shop, located at 354 West Main Street.
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 1885
Description: Exterior view of Fauerbach's Brewery at 651-53 Williamson Street.
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Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
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Riley-Bremer-Riley Garage

Date: 10 11 1930
Description: The Riley-Bremer-Riley Oldsmobile garage on E. Doty Street began as the Riley Livery Stable when horse-drawn transportation reigned and then transitioned t...
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Kroger Grocery Store

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Kroger Complete Food Market, 3-5 North Pinckney Street, with black vitrolite front, chromium trim, and a modernistic Art Deco sign in chromium-plate letter...
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East Main Street Businesses

Date: 05 04 1934
Description: View of East Main Street businesses: Burdick & Murray Co. at 15-17-19 East Main Street, Feltman and Curme, Tailors, 21 East Main Street, Uphoffs Coffee Sho...
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Simpson's Clothing Store

Date: 06 11 1934
Description: Simpson's women's clothing store, with Art Deco sign, located at 23-25 Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square.
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Cardinal Market

Date: 12 15 1934
Description: Elevated view of automobiles parked in front of the Cardinal Market at 120 North Fairchild Street, with a sign on the storefront advertising Essers Wholesa...
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Strauss Shoes and W.T. Grant Building

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: Art Deco building housing Strauss's Shoes at 19 S. Pinckney Street, and the W.T. Grant Company Department Store, located at 21-23 S. Pinckney Street on the...
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Brown's Book Shop

Date: 05 30 1936
Description: The exterior of Brown's Book Shop, 643 State Street at the corner of Lake Street.
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Hill's Department Store

Date: 05 05 1934
Description: Hill's Dry Goods Store, 202 State Street, at the corner of State Street and Dayton Street.
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Sears Roebuck Department Store

Date: 05 05 1934
Description: The Sears, Roebuck and Company store, 313 State Street. The building, built in 1927, is Art Deco style with a limestone front.
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Parts Counter at International Harvester Dealership

Date: 01 13 1937
Description: Two customers standing at the parts counter of a McCormick-Deering dealership owned by C. Scheler and Son. Two men are behind the counter. To the right of ...
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Selling Watermelons out of International A-4 Truck

Date: 1932
Description: Merchant Charles Jankowski and a customer standing among stacks of watermelons at a roadside produce stand. Mr. Jankowki's International Model A-4 truck is...
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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McCormick-Deering Dealership Showroom

Date: 01 14 1929
Description: Cultivators, planters, and other McCormick-Deering farm implements in an International Harvester dealership showroom. A truck and a Farmall Regular tractor...
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Showroom with Truck that Crossed the Sahara

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Showroom featuring the Special Delivery truck (center) that crossed the Sahara Desert from 1927-1928. There is a framed map on an easel on the left.
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International Motor Truck Showroom

Date: 03 20 1929
Description: Showroom of an International Harvester factory(?) with a variety of International trucks on display. There are large show windows in the right, and in the ...
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Showroom of International Truck Dealership

Date: 04 07 1928
Description: Elevated view of the showroom of an International motor truck dealership or branch in Canada(?) with several trucks, a few desks, and potted plants.

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