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124 Langdon Street

Date: 1924
Description: 124 Langdon Street, viewed from Lake Mendota. The house was designed by Madison architect Frank Riley and built in 1924 for the Kappa Sigma fraternity. T...
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Shorb Hotel

Date: 1924
Description: View across intersection of the exterior of the Shorb Hotel. Boys on bicycles are in the street in front near a man standing on the curb. Automobiles are p...
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Depot

Date: 1924
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the train depot. There is a water tank on the left. Three carts are on the platform. A sign on the far right at the track...
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Catholic School, Church, and Parsonage

Date: 1924
Description: View of the church buildings from across the intersection.
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Public School

Date: 1924
Description: Facade of the public school.
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Saint Anne's Church and School

Date: 1924
Description: View across Packer Drive of Saint Anne's Catholic Church and Saint Anne Grade School. There is a pile of gravel and other material near a fence in the fore...
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New and Old School Building

Date: 1924
Description: The new school building during construction, next to the old school building, which has a bell tower on the roof. A man works in the yard on the left near ...
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Monfort Business District

Date: 1924
Description: View across railroad tracks of storefronts located near the train depot. The shops include: Montford Lumber Company, Damerow's Cafe, and the American Hotel...
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Rockland Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down unpaved street towards a general store on the left. The sign on the awning in front reads: "Homstad Store." A gas pump, parked car and large tree...
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Prospect Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: View down Prospect Avenue, with men sitting on a bench by the "Steponet" gas pumps in front of a storefront. A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the b...
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Rockwood Public School

Date: 1924
Description: View of the front of the public school, a three-story brick building. Wooden buildings are in the background on the left. In the foreground is a barbed wir...
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Sauk City Main Street

Date: 1924
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a soda shop/confectioner, with two women and a baby carriage on the sidewalk in front. Further down is a ch...
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Portrait of a Schoelkopf Service Station Attendant

Date: 1924
Description: Portrait of a Schoelkopf Service superintendent posing with hands on hips against a brick wall outdoors. He has a button on his shirt that reads: "4, Schoe...
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Auto Wash Building

Date: 1924
Description: View up ramp towards the "Auto Wash" entrance door of a brick building using the Air-lec pneumatic door opening system invented by Louis Schoelkopf.
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South Hall State Normal School

Date: 1924
Description: Text on front reads: "South Hall State Normal School, River Falls, Wis." A view of the vine-covered front of South Hall at the State Normal School. The sch...
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Saint Peter's Church

Date: 1924
Description: Text on front reads: "Saukville, Wis." The Evangelical Saint Peter's Church was built of cream brick with a clapboard belfry in 1876. The plaque above the ...

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