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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee's City Hall. Signs on the building read "Sinfonietta" and "Concert Tonight." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Dane County Courthouse as it is being razed. Much of it is still intact in this image. Lake Monona and Monona Bay are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Pendarvis and Trelawny, Cornish miners' houses on Shake Rag Street. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
| Date: | 07 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Minocqua showing the surrounding lakes. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View down Wisconsin Avenue looking east. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Bare expanse of land with the Milwaukee lakeshore and the city in the distance. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An industrial area of Milwaukee known as Menominee Valley. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of bluffs and buildings on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The fourth Wisconsin State Capitol during construction of the dome. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Door to the Supreme Court room in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the St. Croix County Court House with six people standing in front of it. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the exterior of Assembly Presbyterian Church, surrounded by trees. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A view of Bascom Hall with dome (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking north past the front portico. The view includes ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Nakoma, showing a Nakoma bus when the route first started. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View of the front face of the Tenney Building, corner of Pinckney and Main Streets, on the Capitol Square. Liggetts Drug Store occupies a portion of the lo... |
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| Description: | View of the businesses on Union Street, notably J.P. Dennett's Drug Store, located on the far right corner. |
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