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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Eagle Bluff toward Nicolet Bay, the Strawberry Islands, and Chambers Island. Three people are sitting on the stone wall of the overl... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Dwight Eisenhower stands with David Sarnoff, Robert Sarnoff and Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a reproduction of the world's first hydroelectric central station. It is located near the site of the original, which began operation on S... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Pinckney Street, looking northeast from the Wisconsin State Capital. On the right is East Washington Avenue. On the left is the Belmont Ho... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the International Harvester Memphis Works in Memphis, Tennessee, with a view of the surrounding neighborhood and Loosahatchie River. The ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Gore, the Sauk City journalist who organized the "Joe Must Go!" petition drive to recall Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Gore had supported McCarthy in ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Pile of original first floor light fixtures photographed during the remodeling of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building during the summer. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Brochure advertising anti-Communism stamps created and distributed by McAllen, Texas. The handwritten date on the brochure places its publication at the p... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library Reading Room during the modernization of the 1950s, with materials and furniture stored at one end of the room. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Supporters of Lar Daly, an Illinois senatorial candidate, and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, protest outside the Congress Hotel where the Americans for Democr... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Comic strip showing man bombing a house because it is being sold to an African-American man. A police officer arrests the seller of the home for inciting t... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International R-160 truck with a closed deck and bottler's body parked in front of a large farm building. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the Sherman Avenue Bridge and its surrounding area. There are several automobiles driving on the road, with the bridge in the foreground and the ap... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the State Office Building, 1 West Wilson Street. Also shows Olin Terrace, Madison Club and the United States Post Office. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Yost-Kessinich Department Store at 201 State Street. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards the Wisconsin Building, which was built in 1901. Located at the intersection of State and Carroll Streets, at 102 State Stre... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | An illustration of the William F. Vilas house, 12 East Gilman Street, later occupied by the American Association of University Women. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Capitol Square and its surrounding buildings. To the left is the Washington Building located on the site of the old "Journal Block" and on the righ... |
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