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Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Panoramic view of the Mendota grade school during construction. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Methodist Hospital, from West Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Midvale Avenue and Odana Boulevard. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | The intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue after the old City Hall (1858-1954) and Fuller Opera House had been torn down. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Blacktopping a new Madison residential street. Construction of the ranch-style houses in the background is almost complete. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | View looking up at two water towers. The roof of a building and treetops are in the foreground. |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | A view of Royce Hall at the Wisconsin State College at Platteville. |
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Description: | Member of a local farmers' band practicing in a barnyard with a cow and pony. Another animal, unidentified, stands behind the sousaphone player. |
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Description: | Member of a local farmers band practicing the tuba in a barnyard with cows. In the background is a barn on a hill. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Two women in Swiss costume kneeling in the grass during the Swiss Cheese celebration. One is blowing into an alpine horn while the other holds the instrume... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Spiritualists in Wonewoc, Wisconsin, are setting controls for medium Earl H. Williams by tying his arms and taping his mouth prior to a "levitation exhibit... |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Pinckney Street, near the corner of East Washington Avenue. To the left is a bank building, in the center a shoe store, and on the right a theatre. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | East Washington Avenue near Union Corners when first reopened after widening in 1955. Several vehicles are on the road. |
Date: | 09 15 1951 |
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Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy greets admirers at a Dairy Day event in Platteville. |
Date: | 09 15 1951 |
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Description: | At a Wisconsin Dairy Day event, the photographer turned the camera from the speaker, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, to the large audience gathered to listen t... |
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