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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A color, pictorial map. Scale: 10 miles to the inch. Shows state parks and forests, proposed state parkways, proposed state monuments and memorials, nation... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A serviceman checks the oil of a car at the Madison Co-op Station. During the 1930s the cooperative movement in Wisconsin expanded its rural base to offer ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Holy Innocents Protestant Episcopal Church "at the northeast corner of the intersection of Highway 16 with a road which goes north and south from Delafield... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street towards the Park Hotel at the corner of Carroll and Main Streets. Located on the first floor of the hotel is The Park Hotel Barber Sh... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Pierce home, at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. The view includes several retail shops and a women's clothing store. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. There are two men standing on the sidewalk outside of the library. In addition, there are several automobil... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A shaded view of Brown's Bookstore, 673 State Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of pedestrians crossing the street outside of Liggetts Drugstore, located in the Tenney Building on Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the Levi B. and Ester Smilie Vilas residence, located at 521 North Henry Street, at the intersection of Henry and Langdon Streets. Buil... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The Primate House at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), built in 1929 and extensively remodeled in 1995. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Power and Light building, located on West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol as seen from the Loraine Hotel on West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Waters Motor Company Used Car Sales Lot, located at 746 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards the Waters Motor Company, located at 802 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Wells Street Bridge occupies the bottom center of the image, with City Hall in the center background. Three men are walking on the bridge. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from inside arch of building looking out to City Hall. A street is below, along with a parking lot full of cars, and several other buildings. |
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