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Main and Carroll Intersection

Date: 1939
Description: The intersection of West Main and North Carroll streets with St. Raphael's in the distance.
Photograph

Blair and Main Streets

Date: 1939
Description: The snowy intersection of South Blair and East Main Streets.
Photograph

Aerial View of Downtown

Date: 1939
Description: Aerial view of downtown.
Photograph

Aerial View of Downtown

Date: 1939
Description: Aerial view of church and surrounding buildings.
Drawing

Mendota Lake Front Development Plan

Date: 1939
Description: The proposed Mendota Lake Front Development Plan, William Kaeser, architect.
Map or Atlas

Recreational Area Plan for Wisconsin

Date: 1939
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...
Photograph

Coop Service Station

Date: 1939
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 ...
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Directing Traffic

Date: 1939
Description: A Chicago police officer holds up his hand to signal pedestrians that they should not enter the crosswalk.
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Holy Innocents Protestant Episcopal Church

Date: 1939
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...
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St. Mary's Episcopal Church

Date: 1939
Description: St. Mary's in the Field, an Episcopal church "located at the northwest corner of the intersection of highways 67 and 18. It is just east of the former Van ...
Photograph

Old Spring Hotel on Nakoma Road

Date: 1939
Description: Exterior view of the "Old Spring Hotel" located at 3706 Nakoma Road, built in 1854. Also called "Gorham's Hotel" and "Old Spring Tavern."
Photograph

Olin Terrace

Date: 1939
Description: Olin Terrace on Lake Monona.
Photograph

Park Hotel

Date: 1939
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...
Photograph

Pierce House

Date: 1939
Description: Exterior view of the Pierce home, at 424 North Pinckney Street.
Photograph

Pinckney Street

Date: 1939
Description: South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. The view includes several retail shops and a women's clothing store.
Photograph

Gaylord Nelson on Horseback

Date: 1939
Description: Gaylord Nelson, later Wisconsin governor, United State senator, and a leading environmentalist of his era, on horseback at a ranch in Rosebud, Montana.
Photograph

Aerial View of Monroe

Date: 1939
Description: Aerial view of commercial section of Monroe, WI. Green County Courthouse is pictured in the middle of the town square.
Photograph

International Harvester Company of Australia

Date: 1939
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Geelong Works in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Photograph

Shocks of Wheat in Field

Date: 1939
Description: Shocks of wheat lined up in a large field. There is a mountain range in the background.
Poster

McCarthy's Second Campaign

Date: 1939
Description: Campaign poster for Joseph R. McCarthy's campaign for circuit judge. McCarthy was considered an underdog in this race, but he campaigned successfully by dr...

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