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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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"Louis Moe" Sailboat

Date: 1902
Description: Ole Christinson, Dick Hanson, Fred Hanson, and Herman Johnson, Sr., onboard sailboat "Louis Moe" along the shore of Sand Island.
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Mississippi River View

Date: 1902
Description: Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river.
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Demolition Train

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of a locomotive collision at the Wisconsin State Fair. This was a much advertised spectacle.
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International Harvester's First General Office Building

Date: 1902
Description: International Harvester's first headquarters building at 7 Monroe Street on the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue. IHC later sold the building and proper...
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Modern Locomotive

Date: 1902
Description: Depiction of the "modern" locomotive at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) with Dome Illuminated

Date: 1902
Description: An unusual photograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol at night with the dome illuminated for a political meeting.
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Madison's Old Central Fire Station, 1881-1904

Date: 1902
Description: Madison's old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster Street, with two ladder wagons pictured in front of the station. The wagon on the left is ...
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Fire Company Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: Madison fire fighters with a hose wagon near the intersection of Webster Street and East Washington Avenue.
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Fire Station on State Street

Date: 1902
Description: Station #2 of the Madison Fire Department at 125 State Street. Several men in uniform pose in front of the building with a horse-drawn wagon. A sign on the...
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Horse Barn

Date: 1902
Description: View of the Horse Barn at the College of Agriculture with a horse and buggy on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Train Passengers at Rudolph

Date: 1902
Description: View down side of railroad tracks across road towards a group of people standing on the platform of the Rudolph depot, awaiting the arrival of Milwaukee Ro...
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Alma on Mississippi River

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School...
Postcard

Hilton Hotel

Date: 1902
Description: View of the Hilton Hotel with a stagecoach parked near the entrance. Caption reads: "Hilton Hotel, Beloit, Wis."
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Vew of Main Street

Date: 1902
Description: Slightly elevated view looking down Main Street, with people walking on the wooden sidewalks, horse and carriages driving down the street and storefronts w...
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Lynxville

Date: 1902
Description: View of Lynxville from the river.
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Ravine Bridge

Date: 1902
Description: Rustic bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills.
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Dan Castello Residence

Date: 1902
Description: The Castello-Bull house, the residence of Dan Castello and later on Wakely Bull (on porch)
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Case Residence

Date: 1902
Description: Winter scene at the Case Residence with J. I. Case's sleigh and team. Andrew Jackson, hostler, (died Dec., 1924) is in the sleigh and "Nick" Mitchell, hir...
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Madison's First Car

Date: 1902
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Zimmerman in their locomobile steamer in 1902. Zimmerman purchased the car in 1901 and claimed it was the first permanent automobil...

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