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Aerial View of Hoyt Park

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of Hoyt Park including the surrounding neighborhoods. Resurrection Cemetery can be seen at the upper right of the image.
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Ella Bennett Bresee

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Ella Bennett Bresee, a member of one of Madison's oldest families, has decorated the graves of American war veterans for 70 years or more. She is placing a...
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Elks Club Members At Roselawn Cemetery

Date: 06 17 1945
Description: Seven Elks Club members in front of a canopy at Roselawn Cemetery. About 400 persons attended the flag service when the flag and Official Elks Rest were de...
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Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial photograph of Madison's west side looking northeast along Speedway Road. Visible are Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemeteries, West High School, Hoyt...
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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial view of west side, looking south along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Lake Wingra, Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemetery, Hoyt Park. Maj...
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Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial photograph looking northwest across the reservoir on Glenway Street. Featured are Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection Cemetery. Major streets are Fr...
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Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking north along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection and Forest Hill Cemeteries, Rentschler Greenhouses, Fore...
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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking southeast across Speedway Road. Visible are the reservoir on Glenway Street, Hoyt Park, Resurrection and Forest Hill cemeteries, Glenway Golf cours...
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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking east along Regent Street with snow on the ground. Visible are Lake Wingra, Monona Bay, railroad causeway across Monona, Lake Mendota, Hoyt Park, We...
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New Monument in Calvary Cemetery

Date: 11 12 1948
Description: Rev. J.B. Schneider, O.P., pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, looking at a newly installed bust of St. Dominic de Guzman, Spanish priest who foun...
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Fall Scene Along Regent Street

Date: 09 30 1949
Description: Fall scene looking east in the 2600 block of Regent Street along the Catholic cemetery.
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Potter's Field Cemetery and Orchard

Date: 10 19 1949
Description: "Potter's Field," a cemetery site of the county asylum near Verona. One of the proposed areas for the construction of a county hospital for the chronically...
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"Cemetery Vandalism Shown"

Date: 11 07 1949
Description: Robert Higgins, assistant caretaker of Holy Cross cemetery, is shown attempting to repair the damage caused by vandals. About 12 small monuments near the ...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: The unveiling of a marble monument dedicated to Madison's war dead at Forest Hill Cemetery as part of Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. At the right of th...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies.
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Trees on Regent Street

Date: 10 11 1954
Description: Rows of maple trees, turning color, line the 2600 block of Regent Street. The photograph looks east and part of Resurrection cemetery is visible at right.
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Madison Arts Guild Crafts Group

Date: 01 18 1955
Description: Mrs. Charles Watson is shown with her rosemaled plate during the Madison Art Guild Crafts Group exchange.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris...

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