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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Bus traveling down Mifflin Street on Capitol Square. Moseleys, Woldenbergs and Walgreen's Drugs are on the right. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a parade on the Capitol Square, celebrating a visit by Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for President. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | International L-153 schoolmaster bus picking up school children at a residential stop. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two children are exiting an International R-183 School Bus. The children are greeted by a woman, possibly their mother. A man, possibly the father of the c... |
| Date: | 05 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Large group of Knights of Columbus women, standing in front of buses made to look like railroad cars. They are returning from a convention held in Racine. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers ride a tractor-drawn passenger wagon at the Fair. In the background is the Sky King roller coaster. |
| Date: | 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north from the Wisconsin State Capitol down Hamilton Street. The Belmont Hotel and various storefronts are along Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 08 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Three students and two adults are shown making arrangements for the chartering of a bus to take Madison high school students on a chaperoned trip to Green ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles were parked on Monona ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Fifteen derby boys and four adults from Mineral Point who came to Madison for the Madison Soap Box Derby are standing in front of their school bus. Larry L... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen points out one of the civil defense decals which are being placed on all Madison buses. The decals state that the buses are pledged fo... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four people board an International Metro school bus. A man wearing a hat sits in the driver's seat. A sign behind the bus reads: "State Fair." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Illustration of children disembarking an International Metro school bus with a suburban house in the background. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of four young women and one young man as they board an International R-line school bus parked along a rural road. The tex... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A large group of school children, probably high school age, are standing in line to board an International R-line school bus. Two more buses are in the bac... |
| Date: | 12 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with pedestrians standing on the sidewalk near a downtown street waiting for bus transportation in a snowstorm. Probably at Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 09 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta... |
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