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Groves-Barnhart Secretarial School

Date: 12 12 1945
Description: Group of five women in class at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street at Gilman Street. There is a large window in the background, s...
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West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Elevated view of part of the audience of 1,000 people who attended a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwau...
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Lowell Frautschi at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Lowell Frautschi, Vice President Frautschi's Furniture Store, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago,...
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Joseph P. Woolsey at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Joseph P. Woolsey, Pres-Treasurer Heilman Baking Co., speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwauk...
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International Scout Truck

Date: 1961
Description: A International Scout truck on display in a showroom. A man is standing behind the truck, which is displayed in front of large windows which look out onto ...
Photograph

Damascus Road and Old Caravansary #1711

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the Damascus Road, the site where Saint Paul is believed to have converted to Christianity. T...
Photograph

Vere Fiedler

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Vere Fiedler, who recently became the new Madison District highway engineer.
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Joseph C. Jones, Highway Engineer

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Joseph C. Jones, retiring Madison District highway engineer.
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Groups of People Standing in Front of a Frame House

Date: 
Description: View across unpaved road towards four boys and three girls posing standing in front of a fence in front of a two-story house. A man, and a woman holding a ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

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Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 719-726

Date: 
Description: That cottage all with melting roses —

It was such fun to think ahead of it,
to condition all that air with smokesuds
and pick the mud out of o...
Photograph

Newspaper Carriers Visit Milwaukee and See Braves-Cardinals Game

Date: 07 02 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc, newspaper carriers take a bus ride to Milwaukee to see the Braves-Cardinals baseball game. It is a nice, clear day and the road to ...
Photograph

Road Trip to Nordic Fest in Decorah

Date: 07 25 2015
Description: View looking through windshield from the backseat of a car. There is a driver on the left, partially visible in the rear view mirror. On the right is a pas...
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Parked Patrol Cars Effective

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: A motorist-eye view through the windshield towards a State Highway Patrol car parked beside a Wisconsin highway. The photographer, sitting in the backseat ...
Photograph

State Highway Improvements Public Hearing

Date: 11 09 1960
Description: A display to illustrate proposed improvements to the Madison Beltline highway at a hearing in the City-County Building by the State Highway Commission.
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International DCOT-405 195 HP Diesel Powered Highway Tractor

Date: 1960
Description: View towards driver's side of truck, parked on a road, with a bridge on the far right behind the truck. The sign on the truck reads: "Kampo Transit, Inc. N...
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Tunnel Cleaner

Date: 04 25 1979
Description: A truck is moving along a tunnel, with a rotating scrub brush attached to its rear scrubbing the ceiling of the tunnel. A man is walking on the opposite si...

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