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Wisconsin Capitol, South Wing

Date: 1921
Description: Employees of the business office of the Insurance Department.
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Baby Clinic

Date: 1921
Description: A mother and infant in a baby carriage pose at the end of a row of wicker baby carriages in front of what is probably the Neighborhood House.
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Muskego Church

Date: 1921
Description: View from cemetery towards the front of the Muskego Church. People are standing near the entrance.
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Sigma Chi House

Date: 1921
Description: View from Lake Mendota of house at 630 N. Lake Street. Robert C. Spencer, architect.
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Kappa Alpha Theta

Date: 1921
Description: Sorority House at 823 Irving Place. After the sorority moved to its new house on Lakelawn Place, the University of Wisconsin-Madison took over this buildin...
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Riding on the Running Boards

Date: 1921
Description: Warmly-dressed school children riding on the running boards of Theta Mead's car. There is a large building and probably a flag pole in the background.
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Marquis de Lafayette Monument

Date: 1921
Description: Daniel Chester French's statue commemorating the American Revolutionary War general, Marquis de Lafayette. Installed circa, 1921, the bronze stands in fro...
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Memorial Continental Hall

Date: 1921
Description: A general view of the Disarmament Conference in Memorial Continental Hall from the balcony. Politicians sit around tables, and an audience gathers on the m...
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Penitentiary

Date: 1921
Description: View across river toward the exterior of the prison, with the central tower and wings. A boat sits at the dock on the far shoreline, and a large smokestack...
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Sumner's Drug Store

Date: 1921
Description: View across street towards the Edwin Sumner and Son Drugstore at 15 S. Pinckney Street. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the street, and...
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Women Congratulate Governor Blaine for Signing the Women's Rights Bill

Date: 1921
Description: Governor John J. Blaine (left) shaking the hand of Mabel Raef Putnam surrounded by other women of who have come to see the governor sign the Women's Rights...
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Alford Brothers Laundry

Date: 1921
Description: View from street looking towards the facade of the Alford Brothers Laundry located at 113-115 Carroll Street. This was a large business with twenty-five em...
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Hinkson's on State Street

Date: 1921
Description: View across street towards Hinkson's, at 644 State Street, which sold malted milk, hot dogs, billiards and smoking material. A truck is parked in front of ...
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State Street House

Date: 1921
Description: View from street of an Italianate style home on State Street. There are mailboxes on the corner, and a lamppost on the left.
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The Red Gym and the YMCA

Date: 1921
Description: View across open lawn towards the Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on Langdon Street, with the YMCA (on the left), and Lake Mendota in the background on the Uni...
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University of Wisconsin Heating Plant

Date: 1921
Description: View across street towards the UW-Heating Plant on Observatory Drive. There is an automobile parked at the curb in the foreground.
Postcard

Edgewater Lodge

Date: 1921
Description: View across lawn towards the Edgewater Lodge, a hotel with a columned porch with a swing and rocking chairs. Caption reads: "Edgewater-Lodge, Ephraim-Wis."
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Country Life Club

Date: 1921
Description: Group of men and women visiting together in a large room. A table and chair are on the left near a fireplace.
Book or Pamphlet

Bus in Front of Wegner-Pirwitz Auto Dealership

Date: 1921
Description: View across unpaved street towards a bus parked in front of the Wegner-Pirwitz Auto Dealership. Snow is on the ground.

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