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| Description: | Color photographic postcard of William Tallman's Italian Villa residence. |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a Greek Revival House - one of the earliest permanent residences in Janesville. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Cars are parked on the street in front of the 1915 brick Parker Pen factory and office building. There is a large water tower on the left. The building was... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | This map shows streets, railroads, the city house numbering system, and the Rock River. The left margin includes a street index. |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Rock River Cotton Company, with an elevated three-quarter view of the company building on the left, and a branch of the cotton plant with b... |
| View a pictorial review of the Wisconsin State Fair from 1851 when it began. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | This map of Janesville was distrusted by the Fifield Lumber Company and features labeled streets, the Rock River, and Fifield Lumber Company buildings in r... |
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| Description: | View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th... |
| Learn about the oldest cities and towns in Wisconsin which were established by 1836 and still exist today. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Left side view of the locomotive engine no. 2872, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632. |
| Date: | 05 1981 |
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| Description: | Former Harrison OK Used Car lot, Center Avenue (US Highway 51). |
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| Description: | Elevated view over a freight train of the Nutrena Feeds factory. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Barlass barn in Rock Prairie, built in 1861, thought to be the largest stone barn remaining in Wisconsin. The stone for this barn was hauled from Carver's... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Standard Oil Company constructed this brick super-service station in 1930 at 101 North Franklin Street. Its Spanish Colonial-style details include decorati... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built in 1925 by A.J. O'Donnell at the cost of five hundred dollars, the filling station located at 720 Center Avenue was designed to resemble a house — al... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a corner of the parlor and the open doorway to the conservatory. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Court House Park from Court Street looking southeast. The Civil War monument can be seen near the center, behind is the old courthouse which was replaced ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Janesville from the School House. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View from School house, Janesville, Wis." |
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