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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 03 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat looks through the eye piece of his surveying instrument, called a 'theodolite,' which rests on a tripod. |
| Date: | 03 12 1956 |
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| Description: | View of Water Street, looking north. Commercial buildings stand on either side of the street, including Lang's, Jack & Tony Superette, Ace Hardware, and Mi... |
| Date: | 10 28 1956 |
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| Description: | View of East Main Street on the Capitol Square, one of four images making up a panorama of the southeast side of the Capitol Square. The S.S. Kresge Co. bu... |
| Date: | 10 28 1956 |
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| Description: | View of the South Pinckney Street side of the Capitol Square, one of four images making up a panorama of the southeast side of the Capitol Square. Pictured... |
| Date: | 10 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Tenney Building at the corner of South Pinckney and East Main Street on the Capitol Square. Businesses pictured on South Pinckney Street includ... |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall at 118 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Boulevard). The building was three windows wide... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "These girls put on a circus in the recreation room at the Fitzpatrick home at 1504 Sumac Drive. They brought the money up to my office whic... |
| Date: | 06 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the front side of the Madison Newspapers, Inc. building at 115 South Carroll Street. The Wisconsin State Journal offices are on the 3rd fl... |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building... |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building... |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company, 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building, known as the Burrows building,... |
| Date: | 04 14 1959 |
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| Description: | Members attending the Panhellenic Alumnae dessert, style show and bridge benefit at Nakoma Country Club. Attendees include, from left to right: Marylu Raus... |
| Date: | 05 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Two men are posing in front of a new Piggly Wiggly grocery store. The new store was located in Middleton at the intersection of Gateway Street and Universi... |
| Date: | 06 08 1959 |
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| Description: | 4-H members, some of them dressed in old-fashioned costumes, serving homemade cakes and donated ice cream at an ice cream social on the Capitol Square. Pro... |
| Date: | 06 19 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison Hotel, located at 108 North Pinckney, is the oldest building on the Capitol Square and one of Madison's oldest landmarks. It was built in 1838. It ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1960 |
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| Description: | View of Wehrmann's Travel Shop storefront at 508 State Street with a fire truck parked outside. The shop was destroyed by fire late Sunday night. The Unive... |
| Date: | 02 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Picketers walk the sidewalk in front of the F.W. Woolworth store on the Capitol Square. The protest was against the company's segregated lunch counter poli... |
| Date: | 05 18 1960 |
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| Description: | A live oak tree is moved into "The Tree and the Poodle" restaurant and bar on State Street next to the Orpheum Theatre in Madison. The McDonald Tree Expert... |
| Date: | 05 11 1960 |
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| Description: | 32 Madison area school safety patrol members leave from the AAA Office at 103 North Hamilton Street for Washington, D.C. to join the largest Wisconsin dele... |
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