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Victoria House Lounge

Date: 03 05 1945
Description: Victoria House lounge, 225 Lake Lawn Place.
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Victoria House Entrance Hall

Date: 03 05 1945
Description: Victoria House entrance hall, 225 Lake Lawn Place.
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Victoria House, College Girl's Bedroom

Date: 03 05 1945
Description: Typical college girl's bedroom with frilly curtains, knick-knacks on shelves, and stuffed animals on the bed at the Victoria House, 225 Lake Lawn Place.
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Victoria House, Dining Room

Date: 03 05 1945
Description: Victoria House dining room, 225 Lake Lawn Place.
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Residing House 412 W. Mifflin Street

Date: 10 22 1934
Description: View from street of the workers re-siding a house at 412 W. Mifflin Street. An automobile is parked in front of the garage on the left, and there is a neig...
Painting

Garnhart House

Date: 1938
Description: The house at 424 North Pinckney Street was built by Samuel H. Donnell in 1857-1858. Donnell was one of the architects for the former Capitol, and the house...
Painting

Garnhart House

Date: 1938
Description: The house at 424 North Pinckney Street was built by Samuel H. Donnell in 1857-1858. Donnell was one of the architects for the former Capitol, and the house...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: Side view of tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, showing the lone window of the tiny sleeping room (far...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Charred remains of the open stairway, which was the closest means of escape for the families who lived upstairs at the rear of the building at 15 South Bed...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the re...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Week-old oil heater which exploded and caused the fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which is located at the rear of the city gara...
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Fire-charred apartment of Annie Simmons and her four children, at the rear of the tiny bedroom in which Florence Dinger and her three children died.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Police Officer Robert O'Neil looking at charred doll and little red boots found in the debris in the room in a tenement-type house, 15 South Bedford Street...
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North Lake Street Houses

Date: 09 10 1954
Description: Exterior view of four houses, probably in the 400 block of North Lake Street, to be torn down for the Lake Street parking ramp.
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Baptist Student Center for Men

Date: 08 1960
Description: Exterior view of the Baptist Student Center for Men, located at 309 North Mills Street at Conklin Place. The house was built in 1887 and remodeled in 1905 ...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map Detail of Langdon Street

Date: 1908
Description: A detail of a Madison Sanborn map that includes the University of Wisconsin Boat House, UW Gymnasium & Armory (The Red Gym), fraternity houses, and the YMC...
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Fred Klein Building and Hubert Schmitz Boarding House

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards two buildings. The building on the left is the Fred Klein Building. The upper two floors are apartments. The ground floor ...
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Hubert Schmitz Boarding House, Hubert Schmitz Building, and Nicholas Weber Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards three buildings. The building on the far left is historically the Hubert Schmitz Boarding House, and is now Ethel Wood's ...

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