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Kennedy Dairy Wagons

Date: 1926
Description: A line of Kennedy Dairy horse-drawn wagons with drivers posing beside them. For Quaker Oats Farm.
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French Battery and Carbon Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the French Battery and Carbon Company office building.
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Roadside Service Station Model

Date: 1926
Description: Architectural model of a village type roadside service station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Men are standing behind the model, and there is a fire in th...
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Model of Village-Type Gasoline Station

Date: 1926
Description: Architectural model of a village-type gasoline station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on display at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring...
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Lake Mendota Shoreline

Date: 1926
Description: Lake Mendota, including Fraternity Row and east side shoreline, taken from the lake path on University Bay Drive.
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Open Air Theatre

Date: 1926
Description: View towards an open-air theatre from University of Wisconsin Observatory Drive.
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Women's Pier Lake Mendota

Date: 1926
Description: View of Picnic Point across University Bay on Lake Mendota. There is a willow tree in the foreground. People are in a canoe out on the water.
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Orpheum Theater Under Construction

Date: 1926
Description: View across W. Johnson Street towards the back side of the Orpheum Theater under construction at 216 State Street. The house beside the theater on the left...
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Bascom Hill Walk

Date: 1926
Description: View from the top of Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus of the tree-lined path and lampposts. South Hall is on the right.
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Adams, Tripp and Van Hise Halls

Date: 1926
Description: View of Adams, Tripp and Van Hise Halls. All are residence halls on the University of Wisconsin campus with Picnic Point and Lake Mendota in the backgroun...
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Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1926
Description: Originally titled 'Recent Aeroplane View of University Campus', the view of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Red Gym, Science Hall and Bascom Hall wit...
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Main Street and Two Gas Stations

Date: 1926
Description: Main Street, with two competing curb-side gas stations across the street from each other. Cars are parked along both sides of the muddy street. Such curb-...
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Chapel at Willerup Camp in Cambridge

Date: 1926
Description: Caption reads: "Chapel at Willerup Camp — Lake Ripley — Cambrdige. Wis." The camp was named for the Danish immigrant minister, Christian B. Willerup, who e...
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Dry Milk Plant in Columbus

Date: 1926
Description: Dry milk plant with a very tall smokestack. Some trucks are parked on the left.
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Tavern

Date: 1926
Description: View of a tavern set in a neighborhood, and surrounded by houses and trees.
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Neighborhood House Exterior

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the Neighborhood House, Madison's only settlement house.
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Aerial View of Schofield

Date: 1926
Description: Aerial view with Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "Schofield Home Coming June 16-17-18-1927". The wing of an airplane is in the right foreground.
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Road Planer

Date: 1926
Description: Road crew pulling a wooden, apparently homemade, road grader. It is a variation on the "Wisconsin Road Planer," a design perfected by the Highway Commissi...
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U.S. Highway 12 and 16

Date: 1926
Description: Car on a dirt highway west of Hustler. The highway is U.S. 12 and 16.
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Chippewa Falls Tourist Camp

Date: 1926
Description: The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community.

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