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Fire at Fitzgibbons Building

Date: 08 28 1948
Description: Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown.
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Blied Building with Sidewalk Scaffolding

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: View of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, showing the South Carroll Street facade with a wood scaffold built over the sidewalk. The scaffolding was...
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Blied Building with Sidewalk Scaffolding

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: Inside view of the wood scaffolding built over the sidewalk along the South Carroll Street side of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street. The scaffolding...
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New Coca Cola Building

Date: 10 17 1948
Description: Construction of the Coca Cola building at 3536 University Avenue.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Building

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: The new Wisconsin Telephone Company west side exchange building in the 2100 block of Franklin Avenue.
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Radio Station WIBA Building

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Radio Station WIBA's new building in the 3800 block of Regent Street.
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Santa Parade

Date: 11 27 1948
Description: In front of Manchester's Department Store, Santa Claus waves to the children from his yellow Ercoupe airplane as he rides in a parade sponsored by the Madi...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ...
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East Washington Avenue at Pinckney Street

Date: 12 04 1948
Description: Elevated view of street scene at East Washington Avenue and Pinckney streets with pedestrians crossing the street. Advertisement on the side of a parked Ra...
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East Washington Avenue at Pinckney Street

Date: 12 04 1948
Description: Street scene at East Washington Avenue and Pinckney streets with pedestrians crossing the street. Advertisement on the side of a parked Railroad Express Ag...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Bertha Atkinson, Baron Brothers Department Store buyer, fits a bootie on Norma Widener, 11-months old, being held by her mother Valera Widener. In the fore...
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Aerial View of Portage

Date: 02 09 1949
Description: One of five aerial views of Portage, including the frozen Wisconsin River.
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Children at Miller Hatchery

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Pictured are four children admiring young chicks in the window of the Miller Hatchery, 2620 East Washington Street. Left to right: Marita Laufenberg, 9, 25...
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Aerial View of Lake Mills

Date: 04 27 1949
Description: Aerial view of Lake Mills.
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Union Bus Station

Date: 04 28 1949
Description: Elevated view across street towards the Union Bus Station, 122 West Washington Avenue, with closed depot doors during a strike of the Northland Greyhound b...
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Badger Bus Coach

Date: 04 28 1949
Description: A Badger Bus Company bus picking up passengers on Fairchild Street due to the Union Bus Station being closed because of a Northland Greyhound Bus strike.
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Aerial Photographs of Blanchardville

Date: 04 30 1949
Description: Aerial photograph of Blanchardville.
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New Police Car

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly, left, and Inspector Phillip Oakey, right, inspect one of the city's fifteen new police cars.

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