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200 Block of State Street from West Johnson Street

Date: 1913
Description: View looking up the 200 block of State Street from West Johnson Street, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction. The bank on the left i...
Photograph

Parade on the Capitol Square

Date: 1910
Description: A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K...
Postcard

King Street

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of King Street, looking east, with a streetcar. Lake Monona is in the background. Caption reads: "King Street, looking East, Madison, Wis."
Postcard

Pinckney Street at Night

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view at night of streetcars moving along the Capitol Square on Pinckney Street. Walzinger's Drugstore is one of the prominent storefronts on the l...
Photograph

Gay Building

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the neoclassical Gay Building, named after Madison developer Leonard W. Gay, at 16 N Carroll Street, one of the first high-rise buildings ...
Photograph

200 Block of State Street in Winter

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si...
Postcard

Capitol Park Entrance

Date: 1912
Description: This card which is postmarked 1912 shows the zinc statutes on the stone gateways near the sidewalk at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Ori...
Photograph

100 Block State Street

Date: 1915
Description: 101-103 State Hook Brothers pianos; 105 State Findlay Flat Iron Building; 107 State Shiphe & Dorn grocers; 109 State Exclsior Shoe Store; 111 State Woman'...
Photograph

100 Block of State Street

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene of the north side of the 100 Block State Street with the Unique Shop, Popcorn Shop, G & A Jewelers, Drugstore, Keeley's and the Wisconsin Stat...
Photograph

400 Block of State Street

Date: 1915
Description: View of the 400 block of State Street, south side with the following businesses: 437 Fred R. Eastman Electrical Supplies, 435 M.J. Levin's The Square Tailo...
Photograph

Crowd On East Washington Avenue

Date: 1914
Description: East Washington Avenue crowded with people and horse-drawn vehicles.
Photograph

Wisconsin Avenue from the Capitol

Date: 1915
Description: Wisconsin Avenue looking toward the northwest from the top of the Capitol. The elevated perspective provides an unusual view of the old City Hall (left) an...
Photograph

Ehrman's Delicatessen

Date: 1918
Description: Ehrman's Delicatessen, located at 300 State Street, on the corner of State and Henry Streets. One man is standing on the sidewalk, and another man is stand...
Photograph

Draftees Leaving Madison

Date: 05 25 1918
Description: A crowd watching as drafted men leave Madison via the Chicago Northwestern railroad station.
Photograph

Gay Building

Date: 1914
Description: The Gay building on North Carroll Street on the Capitol Square, under construction.
Photograph

Grace Episcopal Church Hall

Date: 1914
Description: Grace Episcopal Church's Memorial Guild Hall, 116 West Washington Avenue.
Postcard

King Street

Date: 1917
Description: Colorized view of King Street as seen from the Capitol grounds. Caption reads: "View from New State Capitol, looking East, Madison, Wis."
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lamp House

Date: 04 30 1913
Description: Newspaper photograph of the Robert Lamp home, 22 North Butler Street, built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903, and hidden in the center of one of Madison's upt...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1913
Description: A.O. Fox Block on the corner of Main Street and Carroll Street.
Postcard

Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of the Park Hotel, looking south from the Capitol Dome. Lake Monona is in the background. A streetcar is in the intersection. Caption reads: ...

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