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| Description: | Contest winners pose outside brick building in doorway. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapels or collars. First row, reading from left to righ... |
| Date: | 05 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Large group of children and adults pose on the lawn in front of brick building. Other people look out of open windows. |
| Date: | 05 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of children pose in doorway of brick building. |
| Date: | 07 1945 |
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| Description: | View from front of two men wearing hats standing atop a wagon piled with hay that is being pulled across a partially cut hay field by two horses. |
| Date: | 12 22 1951 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified men stand next to a display announcing a .01 cent sale of Old Dutch cleanser in a Lancaster grocery store. A banner annoucing the product ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Two store employees of a Kroger store stand by an Old Dutch cleanser promotion for gladiolus bulbs in a store in Lancaster. Other merchandise displays incl... |
| Date: | 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of some of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic at a reunion. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Unpaved main street in Lancaster. The shops along the street include: Smith's restaurant and bakery, Goble and Dyer Furniture, and the Grant County Abstrac... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of Nelson Dewey's home. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View down commercial street. The shops include: a wallpaper store, Reed Opera House, a clothing store, and a dental office. Two horse-drawn carriages belon... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | "The First Civil War Monument" outside the Grant County Courthouse. The monument is dedicated "to the memory of the brave soldiers of Grant County who fell... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior of the public library. The room contains tables and chairs, a bust sculpture of a woman, and bookshelves. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Wright House hotel located at 100 N Madison Street. Men pose near the entrance of the building. The Philipps House is located next door. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across road of travelers on platform exiting the Lancaster train depot. A man sits on a horse-drawn wagon in front of the depot. |
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