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Billboards
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    • Date Created: undated
    • Description: Roadside billboard located in a grassy sandy lot next to a street advertising Florsheim shoes. Business name of Lewis & Blanchard appears at the bottom of the sign. To the extreme right is a white wooden entry-type gate. Undated but may be 1920s. Location unknown but may be lower Main Street in Burlington.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


    Oakledge, Burlington, VT
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      • Date Created: 1945-1946
      • Description: 1945/1946 photo of Flynn Ave and Shelburne Road, looking northeast. Damaged sign advertising "Oakledge Manor on Lake Champlain". The Elizabeth Lund Home, 346 Shelburne Rd., can be seen through the trees. (Can anyone identify this type of automobile?)
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


      Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave.
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        • Date Created: 1939-08-15
        • Description: August 15, 1939. So. Winooski Ave. looking south from intersection of Main Street after Plant-Mix asphalt pavement with an average of one and one-half inches of hot asphalt binder course or leveling course and two inch wearing surface of American Bitumuls laykold mixture had been placed and the street opened to traffic. Sign to the left near a two story billboard structure states P.W.A. Federal Works Agency Public Works Administration Street Improvements. Billboards advertise Ritz Crackers and Chesterfield Cigarettes. Strong building on the corner to the right.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


        Road Construction
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          • Date Created: 1928-09-10
          • Description: September 10, 1928. An end of a strip of road being constructed is seen as workmen apply a road surface. Billboards are in the distance along with a sign for "Tourists."
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


          Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.(4X5)
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            • Description: Undated view of Burlington Street Dept crew paving Riverside Ave. The crew form a line across the road as they spread surface material. A team of white horses stand to the left. The Riverside Service Station is to the right. Billboards line the hillside behind. In the distance is the Fairview Garage.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs,Louis L. McAllister Photographs


            Landscapes - Unidentified
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              • Date Created: circa 1940s
              • Description: 1940s photo of the back side of a billboard along with abandoned cars, what looks like a clothes line and a small shed (looks like a dog house).
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


              Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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                • Description: Undated but may be 1929 or early 1930s view of Riverside Ave. before road construction by the Burlington Street Dept. To center right is Fairview Garage at 110 Riverside Ave. Billboards can be seen on the hillside.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                Billboards
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                  • Date Created: undated
                  • Description: Close-up of the roadside billboard advertising Esso. Focus is on an older man portraying a doctor holding a stethoscope to a bare chested boy wearing a football helmet.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                  Burlington - Street Views
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                    • Date Created: 1945/1946
                    • Description: 1945/1946 photo of Flynn Ave and Shelburne Road. Damaged sign advertising "Oakledge Manor on Lake Champlain".
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                    WCAX Radio
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                      • Date Created: 1945
                      • Description: 1945 billboard advertising WCAX radio 620 on the dial. Shown are names, radio personalities and some of the programs broadcast.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs