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Fire Department

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Description: Five men posed on a firetruck in the middle of a street in a business district. Storefronts are in the background on the left and right.
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Charles and Fern Thompson House

Date: 07 03 1951
Description: Exterior view of the Charles and Fern Thompson's new home, featuring redwood and red brick siding, at 3539 Topping Road in Shorewood Hills.
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Flashback Rustic Saloon — Exterior

Date: 07 14 2000
Description: "Our group poses in front of the Flashback Rustic Saloon in Brownsville, WI." From left to right; Ralph Widmer, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, and Shirley Widmer.
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building...
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Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...
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Lutheran Church

Date: 1921
Description: Lutheran church with a fence and trees in front. There is a shed with a ladder propped against it behind the church.
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Sandblasting Facade of Fess Hotel

Date: 11 18 1974
Description: View from sidewalk of a man standing on a ladder and sandblasting the facade on the right side of the Fess Hotel.
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Storefront with Advertisement for Gold Medal Flour

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Description: Brick storefront with advertisement for Gold Medal Flour that reads: "Eventually Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Flour, Why Not Now." Telephone and electrical...
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Holstein-Friesian Building

Date: 02 18 1931
Description: Holstein-Friesian Association of America building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. There is a truck parked on the terrace, and a man is on a ladder in front of t...
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Horse-Drawn Hearses in a Funeral Procession

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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...
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Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View looking down toward construction workers moving a stone slab for the facade into place during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Far...
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: A view of the central business district. A creamery on the left. A house on the right with a woman in a rocking chair and two children in front. Some men s...
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John Cory Storefront

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Description: View across unpaved street toward a group of four men standing on a platform in front of the large open door of a building. A larger open door is above the...
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Madison's Old Central Fire Station, 1881-1904

Date: 1902
Description: Madison's old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster Street, with two ladder wagons pictured in front of the station. The wagon on the left is ...
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Looking West from Barber Shop

Date: 1913
Description: View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ...
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Washington Street Repaving & Widening

Date: 1948
Description: Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ...

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