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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Articles: Anti-Semitic Feeling at U.W. 'Exposed' by Jewish Paper

Date: 12 22 1929
Description: Articles published in the Wisconsin State Journal and the Daily Cardinal regarding anti-Semitism on the University of Wisconsin Madison campu...
Photograph

Nation's First Watershed Project Historic Marker

Date: 07 19 1955
Description: The Nation's First Watershed Project historical marker commemorates the large-scale soil and water conservation project that began in Coon Creek in 1933. S...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Aztalan State Park Historic Marker

Date: 07 23 1967
Description: Albert Kratch, president of the Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society, in front of the Aztalan State Park historical marker. Kratch helped to organize even...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lamp House

Date: 04 30 1913
Description: Newspaper photograph of the Robert Lamp home, 22 North Butler Street, built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903, and hidden in the center of one of Madison's upt...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Text with the photograph reads: "Paul Vanderbilt, curator of the photographic collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at the opening of t...
Photograph

H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, Department Store

Date: 1954
Description: Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street.
Photograph

Father in Apron Cooking

Date: 1960
Description: A father standing over a pan wearing an apron. He is cooking and smoking a cigar.
Photograph

Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: Overhead view of large crowd of demonstrators being beaten back by police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the Dow Chemical demonstration on c...
Photograph

Father Holding Child

Date: 1960
Description: A father is holding his young son in his arms.
Print

Madison Institute Broadside

Date: 1854
Description: Broadside announcing the 1854 opening lecture of the Madison Institute, a private library and civic forum, on December 11, 1854, in the First Baptist Churc...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 07 1950
Description: Roddy Botts with the tool set he won for best constructed car in the 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby.
Photograph

Looking North From Capitol Square

Date: 03 1954
Description: Elevated view looking north from the Wisconsin State Capitol down Hamilton Street. The Belmont Hotel and various storefronts are along Capitol Square.
Manuscript

Frost's Woods Article

Date: 02 26 1931
Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about the end of Lake Monona Wild Life Sanctuary Association, a group that had been trying to preserve Frost's Woods.
Map or Atlas

Map of Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: Shows land ownership by name, rural routes, improved roads, railroads, schools, churches, and cemeteries. "For list of small property owners, lift map at f...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Capitol Square Newspaper Article

Date: 1956
Description: Capitol Square images from a 1956 Wisconsin State Journal article.
Photograph

Yost-Kessinich Store

Date: 1954
Description: View of Yost-Kessinich Department Store at 201 State Street.
Photograph

Willow Drive

Date: 1954
Description: View of bridge and overhanging tree on Willow Drive at the University.
Photograph

Collecting Taxes in the Federal Building

Date: 01 30 1961
Description: Mrs. Peter Mohm wears a coat and scarf indoors as she collects taxes in an unheated federal building.
Photograph

Joseph McCarthy

Date: 1946
Description: Joseph McCarthy at the time of his election victory over Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., in the Republican primary.
Photograph

Buell Home

Date: 1948
Description: The Buell home, built by Charles E. Buell in 1894, which was called "Buell's Folly" locally.

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