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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A nighttime view of the Wisconsin State Capitol as seen from Monona Avenue (South Wisconsin Avenue until December 1, 1877; Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Madison's Park Hotel. The Prescription Pharmacy also occupies a portion of the ground floor. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Braley family house located at 422 North Henry Street in which Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote "Laugh And The World Laughs With You, Cry and You ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Forest Products Laboratory. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Originally the Charles Riley house, 21 West Gilman Street. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner lived in the house in 1890. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Grace Episcopal Church Rectory on West Washington Avenue, built in 1893 and razed in 1960. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Mount Horeb Schools. Caption reads: "Mt. Horeb Schools, Mt. Horeb, Wis." |
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| Description: | Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Construction work in the Historical Society Library Reading Room in preparation for installing linoleum floor tiles. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Ceiling high scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room, with a man and a woman attempting to study at the tables in the foregrou... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms is seated on his motorcycle with Craig Arms sitting in front of him and Lewis Arms, Jr. behind him. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses outdoors with his wife, Elinora, and son, Lewis Arms, Jr. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street. |
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| Description: | Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Paul Vanderbilt sitting sideways on a chair. He was Curator of the Iconographic Collections, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
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