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Fiore Coal & Oil Co. Window Display

Date: 05 22 1931
Description: Fiore Coal & Oil Co. window display in the First National Bank building, 905 University Avenue. The window features a model railroad train layout which is ...
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Chris Ethun and Eunice Smith

Date: 01 30 1928
Description: Outdoor portrait of Chris Ethun and Eunice Smith as Security State Bank team captains for an employee contest to bring in $100,000 in new deposits. They ar...
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Contest Captains

Date: 01 30 1928
Description: Security Bank, male contest captains.
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Blied Building

Date: 12 10 1948
Description: Elevated view from the roof of the Park Hotel. Main Street businesses seen include, from the left: Western Union Telegraph Company at 21 West Main Street, ...
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Coin Display

Date: 04 24 1956
Description: Coin display and 3 placards of explantion in a window at Madison Bank & Trust Company, 23 West Main Street.
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Memorial Day Parade

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Description: Patriotic parade, probably Memorial Day, through town on the board sidewalk, in front of the First National Bank looking back toward the Jackson County Cou...
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Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama

Date: 09 1959
Description: Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama. The man on the left is a banker, the man with eyeglasses is Ted Saunders, and the women are Ruth Bennett Dye...
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Land Rental Receipt

Date: 10 17 1910
Description: Receipt for the sum of $8 paid by Louis M. Hobbins to Peter Bratvold for the right to hunt on 40 acres of land in Door Creek from Oct 26, 1910 through Octo...
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Cheese Day Celebration

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back.
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Security State Bank Baseball Team

Date: 08 10 1949
Description: Group portrait of the Security State Bank softball team, favored to win the championship of the 23rd annual city municipal softball tournament, having alre...
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Stauffer as Uncle Sam

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Description: Christ M. Stauffer appearing as Uncle Sam, riding a horse, during the Cheese Day parade.
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Street Scene

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Description: Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles are on the street in front of several storefronts. Business signs read: "Las Cruces Meat Co. Eggs & Poultry Fish & Gam...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 07 23 1952
Description: Larry Jacobson, 11-year-old Soap Box Derby racer, receives a $25 savings account from Herman J. Kneubuehl, manager of First National Bank. The bank annuall...
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Softball Player and Bookkeeper

Date: 08 05 1952
Description: The portrait shows "attractive, blue-eyed Mary Cassidy, one of the topnotch players in Madison's feminine softball league." She was employed as a bookkeepe...
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Growin' a Beard

Date: 08 21 1964
Description: Mrs. Harold Olson examines the beards of Leon Dunbar, Louis Christianson, Dick Toycen and Perley Entzminger. They are standing on the 500 block of Main Str...
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Performing Dogs

Date: 1910
Description: A small crowd watch as eight dogs perform in Capitol Park. There are circus or carnival tents erected along Pinckney Street, and the First National Bank (l...
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street featuring Rathman Hall Company and small businesses.
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Parade on Main Street

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of students in a school marching band in a parade marching down Main Street. Students are wearing marching band uniforms and are playing inst...
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Small Band on Main Street

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Description: View from sidewalk towards a small brass band marching down a patriotically decorated Main Street. Pedestrians are walking along the sidewalk on the right....
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...

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