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State Street and Bascom Hill

Date: 1929
Description: View of State Street with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University Club, and Bascom Hill in the background. The street is lined with automobiles.
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Mendota Yacht Club

Date: 1913
Description: Mendota Yacht Club, later the site of James Madison Park. A mast with flags is standing outside of the club near the water.
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Mendota Yacht Club

Date: 1915
Description: Mendota Yacht Club, later the site of James Madison Park.
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Young Women's Christian Association Building

Date: 1932
Description: Exterior view of the Young Women's Christian Association, located at 122 State Street.
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Neighborhood House Album: Girls' Club

Date: 1923
Description: Image from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sitting at a table sewing, Mary Lee Griggs standing and helping, and another woman standing by t...
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Neighborhood House Album: Women's Sewing Group

Date: 1926
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of women cutting patterns, sewing by hand and machine, pressing a garment, and checking the ...
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Neighborhood House Album: Summer Sewing Group

Date: 1932
Description: Group of girls in a summer sewing group at Neighborhood House, posing in their finery with Gay Braxton (back row, center, under ceiling lamp), head residen...
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Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
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Sewing Saturday Mornings at Neighborhood House

Date: 1924
Description: Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo...
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Christmas Play at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Performers lined up on the stage in "The Toy Shop," a Christmas play, with a Santa figure, a boy in harlequin dress, two boys in military uniforms, girls i...
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Demonstrating Infant Care at Neighborhood House

Date: 1929
Description: View of a woman standing at a table demonstrating infant care (swaddling?) using a baby doll to five women and two children who are sitting in chairs facin...
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Camp Fire Girls Circle at Neighborhood House

Date: 1925
Description: Group of Camp Fire Girls, some in uniform, sitting on the floor in a circle around lighted candles. Some girls are standing and holding Camp Fire Girls ban...
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Neighborhood House Boys Club Woodworking

Date: 1926
Description: Group of boys working on various woodworking projects: sawing, hammering, and marking. A man in a shirt and tie is talking to one of the boys in the backgr...
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Levi B. Vilas House

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Description: Exterior view from street of the Levi B. Vilas house at 521 North Henry Street, after the porch and steps were remodeled by Arthur O. Fox, brother of Mrs. ...
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University of Wisconsin YMCA

Date: 1921
Description: View from Langdon Street of the University of Wisconsin YMCA on the shore of Lake Mendota. On the porch of the building is a large "Cafeteria" sign. Anothe...
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State Street from the 200 Block

Date: 05 1930
Description: View of heavy automobile traffic, delivery trucks and pedestrians on State Street, seen looking west from the 200 block. In the background is Bascom Hill, ...
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Patriotic Pageant, Capitol Park

Date: 07 04 1918
Description: Outdoor group portrait of young men and women posing in costumes, which are mostly drapery suggesting a Greco-Roman style. One man is dressed as a Roman so...

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