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Animated Display Window

Date: 07 24 1947
Description: Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto...
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Macy Library

Date: 1940
Description: View of a two-story octagonal structure amongst trees. Caption reads: "Possibly Wisconsin's most unusual bit of 'octagonda' is just outside of Fond du Lac....
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Octagon House Model

Date: 1948
Description: A model of the Richards' Octagon House, showing the original structure of the porches.
Photograph

School Architecture Exhibit

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: John J. Flad, architect, and John Guy Fowlkes, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin, viewing the exhibit "Modern Architecture for Modern S...
Photograph

YWCA Mortgage Burning

Date: 02 12 1947
Description: Shown taking part in the "burning of the mortgage" ceremony Thursday night at the Madison YWCA are (from left to right): Mrs. C.V. La Duke, who formerly wa...
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Model of Babcock Memorial Dairy Industrial Building

Date: 12 11 1948
Description: A model of the proposed University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Building which was approved by the board of regents. It is now Babcock Hall at 1605 Linden Dr...
Drawing

Engineering Building

Date: 1948
Description: Model of the new Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Designed by the State Bureau of Architecture.
Print

The Sun Is His Furnace

Date: 10 1943
Description: A page from "The American Magazine" featuring the architect, George Fred Keck. He is shown with an architectural model of a "solar" home.
Manuscript

Call Tower Model

Date: 1940
Description: View looking down at Taliesin apprentices rebuilding the Call Tower model first created before 1920. Work is being done in the Hillside Assembly Hall. The ...

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