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Fallout Shelter Supplies Arrive

Date: 05 20 1963
Description: Barrels of supplies to stock area fallout shelters being unloaded at the City-County Building by work relief program participants and Huber law prisoners f...
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Police Cadet Walks Beat with Veteran Patrolman

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: Madison recruit policeman Franklin Oswald (left) learns how to operate on the beat by walking with veteran patrolman Eugene Buchanan (right) on Post 33, th...
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Explosion Kills Couple

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: Explosion and fire in the 200 block of North Bassett Street caused the deaths of William and Gladys McGrath and destruction of five buildings. Firemen are ...
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Women Hugging Two Children on Capitol Square

Date: 05 24 1958
Description: An unidentified woman hugging two children while standing on the Capitol Square across the street from the Park Hotel. At the corner of the Park Hotel on t...
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Madison Street Scene

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: A couple walking on the sidewalk alongside North Carroll Street towards the Park Hotel. Storefronts across the intersection on the left along Main Street i...
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Sidewalk Newsstand

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: An attendant at a newsstand in downtown Madison. A sign reads: "Latest News." A sign on a building along the sidewalk on the right reads: "Hob Nob Bar".
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Park Hotel & Prescription Pharmacy on the Madison Capitol Square

Date: 06 1960
Description: Elevated view of the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street, taken from the rooftop of an adjacent building looking north from South Carroll Street. West Main...

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