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| 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: | The intersection of Johnson and Broom Streets. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Doctors Lindley and John T. Sprague house, 109 East Johnson Street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A public bus crosses the bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood, looking east. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills, looking west. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View down Monona Avenue, which is now Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, toward Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A view looking northeast along Main Street from near its intersection with Monona Avenue on Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of two houses (108 N. Blount and 102 N. Blount) on North Blount Street taken from Market Place showing a corner of the City Market on the left. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Midvale Avenue and Odana Boulevard. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern Railway crossing on Monona Bay, the site of the old MX tower. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Blacktopping a new Madison residential street. Construction of the ranch-style houses in the background is almost complete. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A construction crew blacktopping a Madison residential street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | East Washington Avenue near Union Corners when first reopened after widening in 1955. Several vehicles are on the road. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the State Office Building looking up at the open windows. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Truax Field, now also called Dane County Regional Airport. In addition to commercial flights, Truax Field is also home to the Army Nation... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view at Truax Field showing the Municipal Airport Administration Building. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west at Washington School, located at 217 North Broom Street. From the early 1940's until its demolition in 1957, the school was used... |
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