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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the central business area on Franklin Street. On the right corner is the "Fish Shanty" Restaurant and on the left is the Rexall Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Madison's Park Hotel. The Prescription Pharmacy also occupies a portion of the ground floor. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the gardens and buildings of the Iowa County Court House. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the church (built in 1928), the rectory (built in 1876), the school (built in 1958), and the convent (built in 1941). Also includes a view ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the front and left side of the Tallman House from the front garden. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of the bedroom in which Abraham Lincoln stayed in 1859. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of chairs and a table set around the fireplace. A mirror is above the fireplace, and a grandmother clock is against the far wall. The windows flanking... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of parlor with chairs, fireplaces and other textiles. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View of the Tallman House from the street in the autumn. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's railroad grade two miles south of Weyerhaeuser over Soft Maple Creek, built about 1875-76. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Grace Episcopal Church, showing the free-standing altar made of Kasota stone. The church was founded in 1838. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and daughter Tierney. Her adoption was not completed at the time of the Senator's death on May 2, 1957. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Architect Frank Lloyd Wright with his granddaughter, actress Anne Baxter, and her mother, Wright's daughter from his first marriage, Catherine Dorothy Wrig... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the green and gold room, which was the main lounge at the Wisconsin Center for adult education at 702 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an M-40 Marine Corps vehicle equipped with a wrecker body towing a searchlight truck up a sandy hill. Mountains are in the far backgrou... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an M-40 Marine Corps vehicle equipped with a wrecker body towing a searchlight truck up a hill in an area of brush. Mountains and pastu... |
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