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| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Peshtigo Fire Cemetery marker, shown on the site. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a North Central Airlines DC-3 airplane flying over the Madison isthmus. Clearly visible are the Wisconsin State Capitol, the 1 West Wilson S... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A nighttime view of the Wisconsin State Capitol as seen from Monona Avenue (South Wisconsin Avenue until December 1, 1877; Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view looking west at the front of the Oscar Mayer meat processing plant with a sign on the building which reads "Meat serves everybody". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of City Stadium, former home of the Green Bay Packers from 1925 to 1956. Currently it is the home of the Green Bay East High School football te... |
| 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: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Inch School No. 6 blocked up to be moved to Lodi. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Nakoma, showing a Nakoma bus when the route first started. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Corner of Canal and Congress streets, showing a building erected by James Sprague and Lyman D. Holford in 1880. Two stores occupied the ground floor, inclu... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the central business area on Franklin Street. On the right corner is the "Fish Shanty" Restaurant and on the left is the Rexall Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of cars parked alongside businesses on Third Street. Bassett's Drugstore is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a house on the corner in fall or early spring. Yawkey house was given by the A.P. Woodson family of Wausau to house the museum o... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Madison's Park Hotel. The Prescription Pharmacy also occupies a portion of the ground floor. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the corner of Carroll and West Main Streets downtown. The Park Hotel occupies the large building. The Prescription Pharmacy, the Park Hotel Barber ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Bus traveling down Mifflin Street on Capitol Square. Moseleys, Woldenbergs and Walgreen's Drugs are on the right. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A rainy, nighttime view of the corner of Main and Carroll streets on the Capitol Square. The neon signs of the Prescription Pharmacy and the Park Hotel lig... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium and Field House on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
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