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Dane County Jail

Date: 1901
Description: The Dane County Jail. To the right is the sheriff's residence.
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House in Madison

Date: 1897
Description: Cyanotype of an unidentified house in Madison.
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Tinslar House

Date: 1900
Description: The Tinslar Residence, home of Miss Flora Tinslar, 909 Wisconsin Street.
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Methodist Parsonage

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Description: A Methodist Episcopal parsonage on Park Avenue and Water Street.
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Racine City Hall

Date: 1900
Description: Racine City Hall. Caption reads: "City Hall, Racine, Wis."
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Racine Station

Date: 1900
Description: The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station.
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Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. Established in 1903, it became a general hospital in the 1930s. A group of people are posing on the lawn ...
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Barlow Chalet of the Golden Fleece

Date: 1948
Description: Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," built in 1937 as the home of Edwin Barlow, originator and director of the Wilhelm Tell play. It has been willed to th...
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Street View

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Description: View down unpaved street. There is a bank on the corner on the left, and people are standing on the sidewalks.
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North Water Street

Date: 1910
Description: North Water Street with City Hall in the background. Numerous horse-drawn vehicles are driving along the street and parked along the curbs, and pedestrians...
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Main and Monona Streets

Date: 1945
Description: View from the corner of Main and Monona Streets looking east toward the Tenney Building.
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the businesses on the east side of North Pinckney Street, including The Fair, The Madison School of Music, and August Scheibel. In the for...
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Milwaukee's Greatest May Day Parade

Date: 05 01 1938
Description: Side view of a car parked at curb decorated to participate in the May Day parade. The car has two large megaphones mounted on top and a banner that reads, ...
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People's Bookstore Storefront

Date: 1940
Description: Storefront of the People's Bookstore showing a Lincoln and Jefferson display. An awning is over the adjacent smoke shop on the left, and on the exterior wa...
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Willms Home, Milwaukee

Date: 1918
Description: View from street of Willms home, 2025 S. 31st Street, Milwaukee. Home of Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) and her daughters Anna (b. 1881) and Emma (189...
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Burned Cross

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Description: A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a sidewalk. In the background are several commercial and residential buildings.
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Castle

Date: 1910
Description: The Lynch residence, a castle like home alongside a road.
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Research Products Plant-Air Filter Division

Date: 02 06 1941
Description: Exterior of Research Products Plant-Air Filter Division.
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Illinois Memorial at Andersonville

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of the Illinois Memorial at Andersonville National Cemetery. A bronze sculpture depicting Columbia, Youth and a Maiden is mounte...
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Street Scene with Carriages

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of an elevated view of a street scene which includes an assortment of carriages. In her journal of Ceylon, Carrie Chapman Catt r...

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