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Fire Fighters Douse Flames Downtown

Date: 04 15 1950
Description: Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district.
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Election Night

Date: 11 1948
Description: Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's...
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Taft in Madison

Date: 03 26 1952
Description: Senator Robert A. Taft speaking to a large audience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House shortly before the April 1 Wisconsin Presidential pr...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse

Date: 10 03 1958
Description: U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. A woman is walking on the sidewalk that surrounds the building. There is a water fountain (bubbler) in the right foregroun...
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Downtown State Office Building

Date: 1955
Description: View of the State Office Building looking up at the open windows.
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View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the Countryside

Date: 06 1955
Description: View towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from the outlying area around Madison. Just beyond the cornfield in the foreground are buildings, one with a sign ...
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The Red Cross Building

Date: 1958
Description: View from the parking lot of the American National Red Cross building, Dane County Chapter Headquarters, located at 302 East Washington Avenue. Awnings cov...
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The Young Women's Christian Association

Date: 1958
Description: View of the Young Women's Christian Association at the Carroll Street entrance.
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Apple Orchard along Road

Date: 05 26 1950
Description: Apple orchard in blossom on the side of a road. There are a number of cut stumps in the foreground. A house is in the background among trees, and a watchto...
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Shopping on the Capitol Square

Date: 1956
Description: Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday.
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Mother and Baby Camel

Date: 05 1950
Description: A Zor Shrine camel and its newly born baby at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo).
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Farm Near Mt. Horeb

Date: 1951
Description: View from slope towards a farm, with barn, silos, and farmhouse. Caption reads: "Mt. Horeb (Vicinity) Wis. Highway 92, c. 1951-1955."

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