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Murder-Suicide in Room on Henry Street

Date: 09 24 1934
Description: Doorway and bed in a room on 521 North Henry Street where a murder-suicide occurred. Adele Burnton was murdered by Harold Kotvis, who then committed suicid...
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Fire Damage to Home

Date: 03 13 1949
Description: Police Officer Walter E. Randall looking at fire damage to the bedroom of Dorothy Meager, 111 North Blair Street.
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Forest's Room

Date: 1912
Description: Forest Middleton reads at his desk in a room cluttered with photographs, neckties, suspenders, and a cap. A bare lightbulb hangs from the ceiling. There is...
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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
Photograph

Pat Richter Relaxing at Home

Date: 11 22 1962
Description: U.W. student-athlete Pat Richter relaxing at his home at 2034 Yahara Place before his final home game for the Badger football team. He is lounging in bed r...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Richard and Alice Welch, 4410 Boulder Terrace, admire their new baby girl Andrea (age six days) during her first nap in her new crib at home.
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Daylight Saving Time Ends on September 25th

Date: 09 23 1960
Description: Richard Brye, 4338 Travis Terrace, poses to remind Madison residents that Daylight Saving Time ends in Wisconsin at 2:00 a.m. on September 25th. All clocks...
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Graduate Students Share a House

Date: 01 10 1961
Description: One in a series of photographs of four U.W. physics graduate students who are renting a furnished home at 429 Russell Walk. In this photograph Brandt Kehoe...

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