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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, looking northeast. The Park Hotel on the corner of W. Main Street and S. Carroll Street, is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol building and surrounding Madison area. Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol and surrounding area. The view is looking northwest, with King Street on the bottom right, and S. Hamilton Stree... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| Date: | 09 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy, explaining what happens to uranium as atomic power is produced. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Evening Wisconsin building. There is a horse-drawn vehicle on the left near the curb. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the H.H. Bennett Studio storefront, in Kilbourn (former name of the Wisconsin Dells). A display case of Bennett's images is on the wooden ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Man delivering a stack of Boston Herald newspapers from an International C-series truck parked along the curb in the downtown Boston area at Boston Common.... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Oconomowoc. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of business district of Oshkosh, "drawn after nature" by the artist. |
| Date: | 04 27 1946 |
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| Description: | Display window at Karstens Inc., 22-24 North Carroll Street, featuring Tom Mix safety display for the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department. The display inclu... |
| Date: | 04 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Max Factor pancake make-up window display at Manchester's, Inc., as advertised in Life magazine. |
| Date: | 09 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window #7, "Were you a September baby?" 14 photographic portraits on display for Photo Studio, Second Floor. |
| Date: | 06 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street. Coronet magazine poster is in one of the windows. |
| Date: | 07 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Coronet magazine display in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. "Read about Wisconson's Ranger Mac (WHA radio personality Wake... |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | The Liquor Shop, at 101 West Mifflin Street. Liquor bottles are on display in the show windows. A sign in the window reads: "Go Shopping in the Madison New... |
| Date: | 12 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Palace Drug Store, 114 State St., Dale Fink, president, window display with flashing sign (Kay Manufacturing Co.), "Developing and printing on Velox paper,... |
| Date: | 11 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Brown's Book Shop, 643 State Street, with a window display of the "Modern Library." |
| Date: | 04 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Brown's Book Shop display window featuring Parker Pens, 643 State Street. |
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