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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Post office, with seven men and a boy standing in front. Corliss is now called Sturtevant. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Union House. Three men are standing on the sidewalk in front. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the downtown area looking northeast from the courthouse corner. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Hotel Racine. Caption reads: "Hotel Racine, Racing, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Hotel Racine. Caption reads: "Hotel Racine, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pumping station with a tall smokestack. Caption reads: "Pumping Station, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Main Street with the Post Office and the Hotel Racine. Caption reads: "Main Street, showing Post Office and Hotel Racine, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Racine House with multiple horse-drawn wagons and figures standing in front. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a country club. Caption reads: "Country Club, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The first Klinkert Hotel. It burned down around 1905, and was replaced by the brick structure with the same name. Signs advertising Harper Rye are on eithe... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Hotel Nelson, a brick building with Schlitz Beer signs on top. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of "The Orchard," which was possibly an inn, in Corliss. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Filling station built in 1927, at 148 West Chestnut Street, by Jack Hansen. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Fred Schmidt installed a gas pump outside his family's blacksmith business in 1911. At 28407 North Lake Drive, the station's location was prime for automob... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 100 South Jefferson Street, started out as a Phillips 66 service station, built in 1935. It is currently Uncle Harry's Frozen Custard. |
| Date: | 02 14 2003 |
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| Description: | "JD's Fieldhouse, at 7641 Highway 38 in Caledonia, WI, was highly touted for their Fish Fries in Dennis Getto, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Restaurant Revi... |
| Date: | 02 14 2003 |
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| Description: | "Breanna joined Shirley when we visited JD's Fieldhouse in Caledonia." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad depot. A train rests at the stop while commuters wait to board from the platform. There is a horse to the right... |
| Date: | 03 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in a tavern on Highway 41, about one mile south of the Racine County Line. A man in a hat stands on the left, facing away. |
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