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Flooded Langdon Street

Date: 05 19 1933
Description: View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water.
Photograph

Rainy Day

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Description: A street scape with people holding umbrellas walking on a sidewalk in the rain. The street shows a business section, and there is a horse-drawn vehicle in ...
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Children Playing in Flooded Street

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues.
Photograph

Man Walking with Cane

Date: 2008
Description: Elevated view of a man walking with a cane on a rainy day.
Photograph

Business Section

Date: 1925
Description: View down road of mixed residential and commercial area after a rain. A group of men, women, and children stand on the front steps of a brick building.
Postcard

Ringling Brothers Circus Parade

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Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 589-598

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Description: Against the prescience of disaster is the safety of even numbers
Photograph

Merchant's Inn on a Rainy Day

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Description: View across street of Merchant's Inn located at the southwest corner of S. First and Fillmore Streets. A man in a buggy pulled by two horses is in the stre...
Photograph

Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: A newspaper salesman guarding his wares against a damp chilly wind.
Photograph

Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: A person is bicycling around Capitol Square in the rain.
Photograph

Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: Three shoppers and two youngsters showing how you lean "left to buck the wind" when you cross Monona Avenue at the Capitol Square.
Photograph

Boys Make Big Splash

Date: 05 15 1957
Description: Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There...
Postcard

Sleet Storm Damage

Date: 01 1916
Description: Damage to trees and wires in a sleet storm. Homes can be seen behind the ice coated wires, and a man is standing in the street on the left. Divided back.Ha...

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