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Soldiers at Camp Randall

Date: 1861
Description: Soldiers in formation at Camp Randall during winter. The season [there appears to be snow on the ground] and the tents indicate that this image was made in...
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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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U.S. Centennial Ceremonies on the Square

Date: 07 04 1876
Description: Stereograph of view of procession, military company and citizens at Great Centennial Day at the Capitol Square. Scene at Main and Carroll Streets showing t...
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Soldiers at U.S. Centennial Celebration

Date: 07 1876
Description: Elevated view from the Park Hotel looking east to the corner of Carroll and Main Streets in Madison. Soldiers are in formation as a part of the centennial ...
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Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 08 28 1929
Description: Wisconsin Memorial Hospital at Farwell's Point on the grounds of the Mendota Mental Health Institute. There is a photocopy of an article included with the ...
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Leath's Sealy Mattress Display Window

Date: 06 18 1946
Description: Display window at Leath Furniture Company, 117-119 State Street. Features Sealy mattresses in bedroom setting, soldier sleeping in a twin bed dreaming of a...
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Capitol Square Parade

Date: 1887
Description: Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers are marching to meet the President and crowds are watching ...
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Soldiers in Square near Park Hotel

Date: 07 04 1877
Description: "From Sullivan's Block, outside Park Hotel, soldiers in a square," one of four "Different Views of Parades in the Streets" identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catal...
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Camp Randall, from the N. E.

Date: 1862
Description: Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members i...
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Confederate Soldier Cemetery Plot

Date: 04 23 1972
Description: Plot in the Forest Hill Cemetery at 1 Speedway Road in which 105 Confederate soldiers are buried. They died while confined in Madison's Camp Randall during...
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Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County, with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are sitting in the fore...
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Newsboy Selling V-E Day Newspaper to Soldier

Date: 05 07 1945
Description: Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Four soldiers, one with liquor bottle and two others with noisemakers, standing on the Capitol Square. They are celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day on ...
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Hans Christian Heg Statue

Date: 1990
Description: Norwegian-born Colonel Hans Christian Heg of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry was mortally wounded at Chickamauga on 19 September 1863 and died the next day. Th...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 27 1948
Description: Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo...
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Wisconsin Centennial Parade

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: The viewing stand for the new voter ceremonies at the King Street entrance of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Admiral William D. Leahy (in uniform) is shown i...
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Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Division Returns

Date: 12 21 1961
Description: Wisconsin's 32nd Division returns to Madison from Fort Lewis, Washington, on holiday leave.
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Soldier Formation at Dedication Ceremony of University of Wisconsin-Madison Gymnasium

Date: 1894
Description: A formation of soldiers stand at attention during the dedication ceremony for the University of Wisconsin-Madison gymnasium.
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Decoration Day Parade

Date: 1894
Description: An elevated view of a Decoration Day parade, near what appears to be Capitol Park. A small crowd gathers at the edge of the street to view a military band ...

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