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Farmall Super M-TA Tractor with Forage Harvester

Date: 1954
Description: Men operating a Farmall Super M-TA tractor, a forage harvester and an International R-150 truck.
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H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, Department Store

Date: 1954
Description: Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street.
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State Street Looking Toward Bascom Hall

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view of State Street looking toward Bascom Hall and the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome.
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State Street toward the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1954
Description: A view down State Street looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Transporting Parcels on Windsled

Date: 1954
Description: Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled.
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Wisconsin Four Lane Highway

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view of a newly opened divided four lane highway.
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Manufacturing Automobile Frames

Date: 1954
Description: Workers at the A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee assembling frames for Cadillac automobiles. In 1902 Arthur O. Smith, son of the company's founder, produ...
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Belmont Hotel and Pinckney Street

Date: 1954
Description: View from Capitol Square Park of the Belmont Hotel and nearby buildings. Includes the storefronts for Simpson's and Rennebohm Drug Store #6, at 19 North Pi...
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Yawkey House

Date: 1954
Description: View across street towards a house on the corner in fall or early spring. Yawkey house was given by the A.P. Woodson family of Wausau to house the museum o...
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City Hall and Parkway Theatre on Mifflin Street

Date: 1954
Description: View looking west down Mifflin Street showing the old City Hall, the Parkway Theater, and Manchesters Department Store. Automobiles are parked at an angle ...
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Road Work with a Hough Loader

Date: 1954
Description: Man working on a suburban road with an International ID-6 and attached loader. The loader was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company.
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Andrews House

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Andrews house, the birthplace and home of Roy Chapman Andrews.
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Stubby Sentinel

Date: 1954
Description: View down road towards the Fond du Lac lighthouse, built in 1933. There are cumulus clouds in the sky, and pine trees are lining the shore.
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Aerial View of Veterans Hospital

Date: 1954
Description: An air view of Madison including the Veterans Hospital, Forest Products Laboratory and University Avenue from Farley (lower edge), to Allen Streets.
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Old Frontier Shop

Date: 1954
Description: Old Frontier Shop.
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Aerial View of Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1954
Description: Aerial view of the Phoenix Proving Ground during the 1954 Industrial Power Roundup, a large event promoting International Harvester's construction equipmen...
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Methodist Hospital

Date: 1954
Description: Methodist Hospital, from West Washington Avenue.
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Intersection of Mifflin and Wisconsin

Date: 1954
Description: The intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue after the old City Hall (1858-1954) and Fuller Opera House had been torn down.
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Gonstead Residence

Date: 1954
Description: Aerial view of the Gonstead residence, owned by a well-known chiropractor and designed by Herb Fritz, architect, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1954
Description: Pinckney Street, near the corner of East Washington Avenue. To the left is a bank building, in the center a shoe store, and on the right a theatre.

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