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Manchester Pigeon Hole Parking

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: The first commercial pigeon hole parking unit in the world was built for the Harry S. Manchester department store, behind Manchesters at the corner of Wisc...
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500 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The...
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300 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E...
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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright standing in the center of a group in the parking lot of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, a building that he had designed. They...
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Driver Education at East High School

Date: 06 18 1956
Description: Twelve men are posing in front of over twenty similar automobiles parked in two neat lines on pavement in back of East High School. The men are auto dealer...
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Man at a Parking Meter

Date: 1955
Description: Man inserting a coin in a parking meter.
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Borden Delivery Truck and Driver

Date: 10 01 1982
Description: Elwin "Al" Smith stands in front of his Borden's delivery truck on his last day before retirement. A University of Wisconsin dormitory and a parking lot ar...
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Automobiles in a Parking Garage

Date: 1923
Description: View of automobiles in a parking garage. They are parked in rows on the left and right. A man is standing in the far background at the end of the garage.
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Officers of the Wisconsin Alumni Association

Date: 06 06 1964
Description: Officers of the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association are shown standing at the site of the future Alumni House, 650 N. Lake Street. Show clockwise f...
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Two Men Arguing Over a Parking Space

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Two men crouching in a parking lot smiling while arguing over who gets to park in one parking spot, with their respective cars fender to fender behind them...
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Two Small Cars Double Up in One Metered Parking Space

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Two drivers are flipping a coin to determine who feeds the meter with their two small cars squeezed into one parking stall on North Park Street by Bascom H...
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First Customer for Doty St. Parking Ramp

Date: 12 13 1957
Description: Automobile at the entrance of the recently opened Doty Street parking ramp. The driver, David O'Neil, is being ushered into the ramp by Traffic Engineer Jo...

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