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Orchard Ridge School

Date: 07 21 1958
Description: Alec McDonnell and Charles Brewer, two future students of the new Orchard Ridge Elementary School, pause on their bicycles to check the progress of the fir...
Map or Atlas

Madison Bicycling Resource Guide & Route Map

Date: 1990
Description: Map of bike routes in Madison. Lower right corner features a system map with legend. Upper left corner is an inset of the Capital Loop with labelled points...
Photograph

Robert Hippe

Date: 1932
Description: Robert Hippe, 12, in cap and bib overalls, poses in front of the Prairie School. His bicycle rests against the porch of the school. A note on the reverse o...
Print

Rupert's Roadkill Cafe Menu

Date: 1986
Description: Front cover and imagined bill of fare for "Rupert's Roadkill Cafe: You Kill It ... ... We Grill It!," with a cartoon drawing of a cat standing on long, fla...
Photograph

Looking West from Amundson's Store

Date: 1929
Description: A view of small wooden houses on each side of a tree-lined path. Two children with a bicycle are standing on the path in the middle distance, near another ...
Photograph

Main Street Looking East

Date: 1912
Description: View down Main Street. On the left is a bowling alley/billiard parlor, a real estate/insurance business, and a livery/garage. On the next block is City Hal...
Photograph

Depot and Train

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Description: View down platform toward the Waunakee depot and an arriving train. Freight cars are on the tracks on the left. A group of men are standing on the platform...
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Red Cross Aided Child

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Donald and Audrey Forrer posing outdoors with their 7-year-old daughter Lydia, pictured riding a bicycle. The Red Cross provided the blood transfusions tha...
Photograph

Bicyle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: A girl and a boy, both wearing crowns, are posing on the open back of a convertible top automobile. They are the queen and king of the Bicycle Safety Week ...
Photograph

Bicycle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: More than 20 children sit on decorated bicycles as part of the 200 children who paraded around the square as 1,500 persons watched during the Bicycle Safet...
Photograph

We Saw You . . . at Watermelon Festlival

Date: 08 30 1959
Description: President Edward Herzfeldt selling tickets for the Monona Grove Businessmen's Association-sponsored Watermelon Festival. Ticket buyers, left to right, incl...
Photograph

Eastmorland Bike Parade

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: Shown posing with their decorated bicycles during the Eastmorland bike parade are (L-R): Joanne Pederson, Donna Pollock, James Boerke, and Robert Boeing.
Photograph

Eastmorland Bike Parade

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: Bicycles are decorated as part of the Eastmorland bike parade. The bikes belong to and were decorated by, from left to right: Jimmy Walsh, Mindy Peck, Lynn...
Photograph

Eastmorland Bike Parade

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: Children in the 6-8 age group decorated themselves as well as their bicycles for the Eastmorland bike parade. They include, from left, Karl Jones, Saverio ...
Photograph

House on Capitol Square

Date: 1965
Description: View looking through porches of residential buildings near Capitol Square.
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Maple Bluff Fire School

Date: 11 12 1960
Description: A scene from a fire school held by the Maple bluff fire department for their volunteer firemen. They witnessed demonstrations on how to put out different t...
Photograph

Madison's Boys Baseball Program

Date: 06 15 1953
Description: Fritz Wegner, left, director of Madison's Boys Baseball program, watches the action at Vilas park with some of the boys.
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Beach Scene

Date: 06 16 1953
Description: View of a crowd of people, mostly in swimsuits, at what might be Vilas Beach on Lake Wingra. There is a concession stand in a building in the background. A...
Photograph

We Saw You . . . Playing Boys Baseball

Date: 06 1954
Description: A youth baseball player scoots past the catcher to score a run.
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Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 16 1953
Description: Slightly elevated view taken from the Capitol Square looking down State Street. There is an unidentified marching group is coming up the middle of the stre...

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