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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Several houses at the intersection of Wilson Street and Monona Avenue with the home of Simeon Mills, one of Madison's most prominent citizens, on the corne... |
| Date: | 11 01 1896 |
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| Description: | Canal Street less than a year before a fire swept through and destroyed many of these buildings on March 22, 1897, resulting in a loss of about $45,000. Pr... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Giles house, residence of Hiram H. Giles, state legislator and social welfare authority. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Giles house, residence of Hiram H. Giles, state legislator and social welfare authority. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Island Park, looking south from the east end of Kinzie Avenue bridge. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A slightly elevated view of a parade? of cars driving down a street as onlookers are standing by. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a wagon next to an International Harvester engine while other people look on. There is a water tower in the background on the right. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Men unloading furniture from an Allied moving van while two children are looking on. Text on the truck reads: "Long Distance Moving; Rock Island Transfer &... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northeast from the chimney of the Power Plant on University Avenue. The Chemistry Building is in the foreground, and Bascom Hall and ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west at Washington School, located at 217 North Broom Street. From the early 1940's until its demolition in 1957, the school was used... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground. |
| Date: | 07 20 1929 |
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| Description: | Emil Anderson operates a road grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on Highway 12. |
| Date: | 07 14 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a Gilbert road grader with a twenty foot blade to work on the Yellowstone Trail. |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of the Sparta Public Library. Reverse of the cardboard backing reads: "Carnegie bldg., 1903, cost $12,000. Architects, Schick & Rot... |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. Above th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View down road towards horizon of a long line of vehicles along the autobahn. U.S. Army soldiers are driving the vehicles to deliver artillery and supplies... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of men gathered around a truck with a large sign that reads, in part: "Kansas State Agricultural College Silo Special." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the landscaping of a suburban home. Original title reads: "Good foundation plantings. Desirable open lawn evergreens may eventua... |
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