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Road Construction
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- Date Created: 1928-09-10
- Description: September 10, 1928. Road crew and a huge machine work along a stretch of road. Dozens of cloth bags containing construction material are seen lined up. Billboards in the distance advertise Atwater Kent radios, Graham Paige and a fuel company for coal and oil.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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- Description: Undated photo (1929 or early 1930s?) of Riverside Ave showing road construction project by the city street dept crew. Billboards are seen in the background including one advertising Lucky Strike cigarettes. Filling station seen to the left may be Fairview Garage of 110 Riverside Ave.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Winooski, VT - Winooski River and Mills (Panormama: 7 Photos numbered left to right)
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- Description: Undated but may be 1920s (or earlier) view of Riverside Ave (Lower Winooski Road), Burlington. Billboard along side of road advertises White's Vermont Velvet Ice Cream made by White's Pure Milk Products located at 21 Church Street, Burlington, Vt. ; A. R. White proprietor. Photo 7 of seven part panoramic view.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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- Description: Undated but may be 1929 or early 1930s repaving after removal or covering up of trolley tracks. To the left is a filling station and billboard signs advertising Chesterfield (cigarettes?) and the Sherwood Hotel. City street dept workmen lay fill and steamroll asphalt. Houses line the ridge towering in background.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.(4X5)
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- Description: Undated view of Riverside Ave with the Fairview Garage on the far left. A billboard advertising the New Sherwood Hotel in Burlington, Vt can be seen.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
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
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: 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