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Steeplejack at Work

Date: 05 1984
Description: A steeplejack works on St. Peters Lutheran Church.
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Warner Creek Cheese Billboard

Date: 1986
Description: Warner Creek Cheese billboard, including a 3D sculpture of a mouse with cheese, in front of a small, brick building. Located off the State Highway near Hil...
Postcard

Farmers' and Merchants' Union Bank

Date: 1980
Description: Color photographic postcard of the Farmers' and Merchants' Union Bank. The original building was designed by Louis H. Sullivan and constructed in 1919 of C...
Photograph

Amber Grid

Date: 1987
Description: Exterior view of the Amber Grid at 1313 University Avenue. There is a bicycle parked in front of the building.
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Razing of Manchester's Department Store

Date: 06 1985
Description: View from Wisconsin Avenue towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. A man wearing a hardhat ...
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Vel Phillips Sharing a Drink

Date: 07 1980
Description: Vel Phillips stands between two women. They are all holding wine glasses. The woman on the left is wearing glasses and a turtleneck. The woman on the right...
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Along the Lake Monona Shoreline

Date: 1982
Description: View across a lawn towards the back of a house. The lawn slopes down to the left towards a tree-lined shore, with a bench and a pier. In the background is ...
Photograph

Remaining Signature of Commerce

Date: 1982
Description: Flat sculpture or sign of a monarch butterfly attached to the side of a brick wall. Leaves are hanging from branches of a tree from the upper right and par...
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Bernard Curran Passing Some Time

Date: 1982
Description: View down a curb towards a man standing on the sidewalk on the right leaning against a parking sign. He is wearing a hat and a striped shirt tucked into bl...
Photograph

Coin Wash on Williamson Street

Date: 1982
Description: View down a sidewalk towards three people waiting outside of a coin laundromat on Williamson Street. Two women, one on steps of a doorway and another near ...
Photograph

Sunshine Market

Date: 1982
Description: View from street of a mural on the side of the upper story of a brick building next to the Sunshine Market. Above the entrance to the market is a sign with...
Photograph

Suzy nee Elvira Dambry

Date: 1982
Description: A profile view of the head of a woman, Suzy nee Elvira Dambry, sitting on a porch and looking across the street at a large brick building on the corner of ...
Photograph

Children at Wingra School

Date: 1985
Description: Girl opens door for boy at Wingra School.
Photograph

Spring Tavern

Date: 1982
Description: A large black walnut tree standing in the yard of the Spring Tavern at 3706 Nakoma Road. Also known as the Spring Inn or Spring Hotel, the structure was bu...
Photograph

Austrian Pine

Date: 1981
Description: A tall pine shading the front of the two-story brick house built by Rufus White in 1864. The tree was probably planted around the same time. Frank Hoard wa...
Postcard

The Statue of Gambrinus

Date: 1984
Description: Text on reverse reads: "THE STATUE OF GAMBRINUS, the legendary Flemish King, generally referred to as the inventor and King of Beer, is a famous landmark a...
Postcard

Wilder Hall

Date: 1980
Description: View across lawn towards Wilder Hall, one of the first residence halls at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Photograph

George Albert Brumder Family

Date: 1982
Description: George Albert and Marilyn Ann (Coyne) Brumder are posing sitting outdoors on a brick wall with their four children. From left: James Frederick, George Rich...
Photograph

Jeff and Pat Otten

Date: 06 26 1985
Description: Waist-up portrait of a man and woman posing together outdoors while standing against a brick wall. They are both are wearing matching sunglasses and shirts...
Photograph

Nathan Shapiro Building

Date: 01 1980
Description: Exterior view of the Nathan Shapiro House at 3059 South Kinnickinnic Avenue.

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