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Education Week Window Display

Date: 11 08 1938
Description: Rentschler Floral Company, 228-230 State, window display for American Education Week.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin President Fred and Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 03 09 1953
Description: University President E.B. Fred and former governor Oscar Rennebohm posing in front of the first Rennebohm Drug Store in the 1300 block of University Avenue...
Photograph

Aerial View of Oregon

Date: 11 1928
Description: Aerial view of Oregon, including the central business disctrict, residential areas, schools, and the surrounding countryside.
Postcard

Stoughton Views

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Description: Postcard featuring various views of Stoughton, including Main Street, Lake Kegonsa, a high school, and the city hall and library.
Photograph

Officer Frank Ingraham with School Children

Date: 04 12 1945
Description: Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ...
Photograph

Youth Council Cleaning Street

Date: 04 09 1947
Description: Youth council spring clean-up committee cleaning the street in front of the Madison Community Center. Left to right: Rebecca Wilson, Martha Truog, George S...
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Crowd Outside the State Capitol at the Funeral for Glenn Frank Sr. and Jr.

Date: 09 18 1940
Description: Elevated view of the overflow crowd standing outside the Wisconsin State Capitol during the funerals for University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and ...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: The Cambridge High School marching band goes down North Pinckney Street during the Scrap Metal Parade around the Capitol Square. Shown in the background ar...
Map or Atlas

Ashburn's Madison City & County Map

Date: 1955
Description: Shows city limits, adjoining municipalities, and schools. Indexes, illustrations, ancillary map of Dane County, and ancillary map of Madison business secti...
Photograph

June Dairy Month on Capitol Square

Date: 06 08 1959
Description: 4-H members, some of them dressed in old-fashioned costumes, serving homemade cakes and donated ice cream at an ice cream social on the Capitol Square. Pro...
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Safety Patrol Members Leave for Washington

Date: 05 11 1960
Description: 32 Madison area school safety patrol members leave from the AAA Office at 103 North Hamilton Street for Washington, D.C. to join the largest Wisconsin dele...
Photograph

Aerial View of Downtown Madison

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Description: Aerial view of Madison, including the Capitol Square on the left at Mifflin and State Street, and Central High School, the light-colored building in the fo...
Photograph

State Street Side of the Capitol Square

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Description: Aerial view of the Capitol Square, with Capitol Park and part of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Manchester's is on the corner of Mifflin Street at Wisconsin ...
Photograph

Labeled View of Downtown Madison

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Description: Aerial view of Madison, including Yost's, State Street, The Orpheum Theatre, Hills, the Madison Public Library, block 64 parking, East Johnson Street, and ...
Photograph

View of Downtown Madison

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Description: Aerial view of Madison featuring Central High School/Madison Area Technical College (MATC) at top center.
Photograph

Aerial View of Atwood Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue Intersection

Date: 1945
Description: An aerial view, looking northeast, that includes the intersection at Atwood and Fair Oaks Avenues. Elmside Circle Park is on the bottom left. The Madison-K...
Photograph

The Simeon Mills Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across King Street towards The Gallery Inn restaurant, on the left, and the Buy Sell shop with a show window on the corner of King and Webster streets...
Postcard

Capitol Square from the Air

Date: 1980
Description: Aerial view of Capitol Square and the surrounding central isthmus. Lake Monona is on the right.
Postcard

Aerial Vew, Looking S.E., showing State Capitol, Lake Monona in Distance

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Description: Aerial view of Capitol Square from over Wisconsin Avenue. MATC Downtown in the foreground. Caption reads: "Aerial Vew, Looking S.E., showing State Capitol,...
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Teachers Convention in Madison

Date: 02 14 1958
Description: A teacher from Baraboo holding up a parking ticket she had received, as her colleagues from Baraboo are standing nearby, smiling and pointing. The side of ...

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