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Woman on Motor Scooter

Date: 1958
Description: A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony

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Description: Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments.
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Newspaper Print Shop

Date: 1950
Description: Sports editor and sports reporter from the "Wisconsin State Journal" confer with a printer over trays of lead type.
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Writing a Note

Date: 1950
Description: A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen.
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Reading the Scriptures

Date: 1954
Description: Rabbi Max Lipschitz, and a group of Bar Mitzvah students wearing prayer shawls and yarmulkes, (Jewish skullcaps) gather around the torah on the altar to re...
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Aerial View of East Side

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Description: Aerial view of the southeast, with West Broadway and the South Beltline running through the image. Also shows Nob Hill restaurant, the Toki family farm and...
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Sears-Roebuck Department Store

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles.
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Regent Street and West Washington Avenue Intersection

Date: 1955
Description: View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the intersection of Regent Street and West Washington Avenue.
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East Washington Avenue between Butler and Pinckney Streets

Date: 1954
Description: View of Capitol Square and its surrounding buildings. To the left is the Washington Building located on the site of the old "Journal Block" and on the righ...
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Bacteriology Building

Date: 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Bacteriology Building, in process of construction on campus. There are cars in a parking lot in the foreground.
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Eagle Heights and Woods

Date: 07 15 1958
Description: Aerial view of Eagle Heights Farm, Eagle Heights Woods and part of Lake Mendota. Sites labeled on the image are Eagle Heights, Tent Colony, Apartment Site,...
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Cranberry Processing

Date: 1955
Description: Professor Kenneth Weckel of the University of Wisconsin demonstrates his new method of preserving and canning cranberries whole without smashing them. The ...
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Aerial View of Governor's Island

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Description: An aerial view of Governor's Island. A cutout of an arrow has been added.
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Aerial View of Westgate Shopping Center

Date: 1959
Description: Aerial view of the Westgate Shopping Center under construction.
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Car Outside Bergmann Prescription and Photo Center

Date: 1958
Description: Photograph of a 1958 Chevy driving past Bergmann Prescription and Photo Center, located at 102 King Street. A man and a woman stand on opposite street corn...
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University Expansion Area

Date: 06 1960
Description: Aerial view looking northwest showing an area to be redeveloped into high-rise dormitories. Lake Mendota and Bascom Woods can be seen at the top. Universit...
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Sellery Hall Construction

Date: 03 1962
Description: Aerial view with beginning of construction on Sellery Hall on the block bounded by Park, West Johnson, Murray, and West Dayton Streets. Park Street runs fr...

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