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Panoramic View of Dudgeon Neighborhood

Date: 1916
Description: Panoramic view of the Wingra area from the railroad tracks north of Gregory Street. Looking towards Lake Wingra, across Monroe Street.
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Camp Randall Field

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a ...
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Italian Woman Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds...
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Camp Randall Field

Date: 1908
Description: Aerial view of Camp Randall Field on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. University Heights is in the background.
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McCormick-Deering 10-20 Tractor Used for Street Cleaning

Date: 06 21 1927
Description: McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor parked along a curb in a residential neighborhood. The tractor is attached to a trailer with a tank that bears t...
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Harrison Street Community Garden

Date: 04 1917
Description: Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ...
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Families Work in Deering Works Employee Gardens

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Description: Men, women and children dig and rake the soil at the Deering Works employee gardens. The gardens appear to be located in a residential neighborhood.
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Frank Brothers Grocery Store

Date: 04 07 1939
Description: Frank Brothers grocery store, 609-613 University Avenue, with two workers stocking the window display with Seald Sweet oranges in neatly arranged pyramids.
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Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
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Panoramic View of the Kroger Air Show

Date: 05 06 1934
Description: Kroger air show, panoramic view of the Madison Airport, end of North street at Coolidge, and neighboring houses from across the field.
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Tractor Breaking Ground for Garden

Date: 04 28 1933
Description: Gene Walker on Caterpillar tractor breaking ground for community garden project, located on S. Park Street near Cedar Street. Watching are: Alphons Kruel, ...
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Banana Display Window at A & P

Date: 05 11 1928
Description: Banana display window at A & P, 1355 Williamson Street.
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Residential Housing

Date: 1936
Description: View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background.
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Farmall Cub Tractor

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Description: Three-quarter view towards a man operating a Farmall Cub tractor in a garden.
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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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Nagle-Hart Building

Date: 05 14 1948
Description: View across street towards the Nagle-Hart Caterpillar Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue.
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Loretta Falci Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste, on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street. Milton Stre...
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Tornado Damage

Date: 07 23 1944
Description: Tornado damage at Truax Field area. Barn damage with house in background. Two horses survived in the barn despite the damage around them.
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Pigs Loose in Nakoma

Date: 02 25 1947
Description: Pigs in fenced-in tennis court at Nakoma Park on Nakoma Road. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block of Nakoma Road near the arbore...
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Pigs Loose in Nakoma

Date: 02 25 1947
Description: Four men wrestling with escaped pigs in the backyard of a home in the Nakoma neighborhood. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block o...

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