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Main Street on the Square

Date: 1900
Description: View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West."
Postcard

King Street

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of King Street, looking east, with a streetcar. Lake Monona is in the background. Caption reads: "King Street, looking East, Madison, Wis."
Historical Object

Air Mail Begins

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: Souvenir envelope mailed by John A. Lester on the flight that inaugurated air mail service between Madison and Minneapolis in 1927. Madison's first incomin...
Postcard

Pinckney Street at Night

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view at night of streetcars moving along the Capitol Square on Pinckney Street. Walzinger's Drugstore is one of the prominent storefronts on the l...
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Central High School

Date: 1915
Description: Central High School, designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert and partially razed in 1986. Caption reads: "High School, Madison, Wis."
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 1912
Description: Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons. The memorial was built to honor Wisconsin Civil War soldiers and is located on the University of Wisconsi...
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Main Street

Date: 1909
Description: View of Main Street with streetcar. Caption reads: "Main Street, Madison, Wis."
Photograph

Delta Upsilon Fraternity

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior front view from Lake Mendota of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House, located at 640 North Francis Street, erected in 1906. A group of people are o...
Postcard

King Street

Date: 1917
Description: Colorized view of King Street as seen from the Capitol grounds. Caption reads: "Looking Toward King Street from the Capitol, Madison, Wis."
Postcard

Madison Sanitarium

Date: 1920
Description: View towards the front of the Madison Sanitarium on Lakeside Street. An automobile is parked in front.
Postcard

Main St., looking West

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main St., looking West, Madison, Wis."
Postcard

Park Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: View across intersection towards the Park Hotel, located on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Park Hotel, Madison, Wis."
Postcard

Park Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: View across Main Street towards the Park Hotel on a corner. A church is behind the hotel on the left. In the left foreground a man is entering a horse-draw...
Postcard

North Entrance of State Historical Society

Date: 1918
Description: View towards the terraced steps and balustrades leading down to the sidewalk, at the North, Langdon Street, entrance of the State Historical Society. The A...
Postcard

Bridge in Tenney Park

Date: 
Description: View of a bridge in Tenney Park surrounded by shrubs and trees. Caption reads: "Bridge in Tenney Park, Madison, Wis."
Postcard

Bridge and Lagoon in Tenney Park

Date: 1907
Description: Bridge and Lagoon in Tenney Park. Caption reads: "Bridge and Lagoon, Tenney Park, Madison, Wisconsin."
Photograph

University Drive

Date: 1917
Description: A wooded view of University Drive.
Postcard

Scenic University Drive

Date: 
Description: View of tree-lined University Drive on the shores of Lake Mendota. The Wisconsin State Capitol is visible in the background. Caption reads: "University Dri...
Drawing

Wesley Foundation of Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Wesley Foundation of Wisconsin. E.W Blakeman, University Pastor, Madison, Wisconsin and Childs & Smith Architects, Chicago, Illinois.
Photograph

A Snowy West Washington Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: Winter scene of a deeply snow-covered West Washington Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin. In the background is the Wisconsin State Capitol building.

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