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| Date: | 07 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Arthur Altmeyer poses outdoors with John Engell (last name?), Paul Douglas, and Oscar Ewing at the signing of the Medicare Bill." Arthur... |
| Date: | 07 30 1965 |
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| Description: | President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Medicare bill. Former President Harry S. Truman, "who started it all," is present with Mrs. Bess Truman, Hubert H... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This service station located at 23923 Burrows Road (formally State Highway 93) was built in 1931, by Leo Breska. It now houses an auto-repair business, own... |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | View of stage and main floor of Independence Opera House from rear. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | View of Independence Opera House, city hall, clock tower and public library building from across the street. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | View of Independence Opera House auditorium and stage from balcony. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Public Library entrance in the Independence Opera House building. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Independence Opera House's rear loading doors including pulley. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Backstage graffiti at the Independent Opera House naming participants in plays performed in 1936 and 1937. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Independence City Hall and Opera House clock tower illuminated at dusk, including flagpole. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Close-up of replicated stencil work and molding in Independence Opera House auditorium. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | View of Independence Opera House Auditorium and from stage. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | View of Independence Opera House auditorium from balcony. |
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| Description: | View of a field of hops. Caption reads: "Hop Yard, Independence, Ore." |
| Architectural photographs of the restored opera houses of Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | View across street towards the public library and City Hall (one building), with a clock tower. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved intersection towards businesses, including the A. Garthus building with a grocery/general store, the State Bank of Independence, the Th... |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, with the Home Bakery on the left at the street corner. Further up the block on the left are pedestrians on the sidewalk, and signs o... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the high school, a three-story brick building. |
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| Description: | View across water towards a bridge spanning the Elk River. |
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