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| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol fire, showing a crowd watching near the South Wing. Some of the contents of the building are already in wagons ready to be hauled a... |
| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| Description: | The office of Historical Society Librarian Isaac Bradley in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Bradley, who joined the Society staff in 1... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The State Street approach to the Wisconsin State Capitol at the turn of the century. Electric poles and street railroad wires are in the foreground. In the... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Smokehouse at Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn. |
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| Description: | View of the tavern, with a woman in a long dress and a dog on the front lawn. Carriage house, stables, and smoke house are in the rear. The tavern was bui... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A snapshot of a partially eaten breakfast at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store cafeteria restaurant. The photograph was taken by Steven O. Kimbrough who... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View up Main Street, with houses up on a hill on the left above a stone wall that runs along the sidewalk. On the right is a sign that reads: "Maiden R[ock... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the City Hotel with a group of people posed near its entrance. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Alba House, with individuals standing outside its entrance and on the balcony. |
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| Description: | "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters battle a controlled fire during training with an International Harvester Scout 80 4x4 mounted with a fire apparatus. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down road lined with trees and storefronts. A number of automobiles can be seen parked. The Post Office is on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The bartender Art Gerth stands behind the bar of a tavern located at the corner of Twelfth and Chambers. A glass of beer stands on the bar. Behind the bar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A wooden chest with a sign "[illegible] Cement Work" stands on West Dayton Street near its intersection with Wisconsin Avenue. There is a bucket nearby, an... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The Dane County sheriff's residence, with the county jail behind. A corner of the Dane County Court House is seen on the far left. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Mary E. Smith seated in a bedroom in the Belvedere Hotel (?), probably in Washington, D.C. or vicinity. Her reflection is in the mirrored door behind her. ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1957 |
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| Description: | View across water, with cranes among piles of coal along the right, and among piles of other materials on the left. Smoke is in the distance on the right, ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The travelers are washing their clothes in the St. Croix River. There are a number of logs at the river's edge. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ... |
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