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| Description: | Aerial view of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad station, roundhouse, and yard at the intersection of West Washington Avenue (across lower left... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across intersection of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad station at Blair and Wilson Streets. Three tall chimneys from the MG&E plant can be seen ... |
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| Description: | The stone building formerly housed the flour mill. The mill was established in 1852, but had pretty well gone out of business by 1895, by which time the po... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | High school. Caption reads: "High School, Bloomington Wis." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | School known as the "old stone school," the first public school building in Bloomington. The clock tower replaced the former bell tower. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Historical marker of the Namekagon Portage on the Lac Court Oreilles Native American Reservation. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the new Madison television facility, WISC-TV (Channel 3), showing the transmitting tower in construction. The location is to the southwest,... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view looking northeast from a point over the east end of Middleton, showing the west end of Lake Mendota (right mid-ground). Fox Bluff juts into the... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view, looking eastward from a point several miles outside the southwestern limits of Madison in the direction of Verona. Crossing the image diagonal... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view looking east along Madison's Lake Mendota shoreline. The large building under construction at center is Carroll Hall, a University of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view over the eastern end of Lake Mendota, looking northeast. Maple Bluff is in the foreground and Truax Field is in the background. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view looking south from a point over the Maple Bluff country club golf course (foreground). A new housing development in the mid-ground and Maple Bl... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Hazelwood, the home of Morgan L. Martin. Morgan Lewis Martin served as county judge of Brown County from 1875 until his death in 1887. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Tank Cottage with a stone fence and gate in the foreground. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it un... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Capitol Square images from a 1956 Wisconsin State Journal article. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the front and right side of the Tallman House. Caption reads: "Tallman Homestead, Janesville, Wisconsin". |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of chairs and a table set around the fireplace. A mirror is above the fireplace, and a grandmother clock is against the far wall. The windows flanking... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The Waelderhaus a memorial planned for John Michael Kohler the founder of the Kohler Company, by his daughter, Marie Christine Kohler. Waelderhaus is a rep... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of the Signal Oak taken from the original, which was the first in a series of Heritage Prints. The idea for the series was conceived by the First Nati... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Passers-by help move a disabled vehicle after an automobile accident on Wisconsin Avenue. |
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