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| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | View down University Avenue, looking east. At this time, University Avenue was United States Highway 12. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down center of University Avenue with storefronts on both sides. The signs on the left read: "Hurley Bros. Grocers" and "Garage." On the right are sig... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from the Wisconsin State Capitol down East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Capitol Square and its surrounding buildings. To the left is the Washington Building located on the site of the old "Journal Block" and on the righ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Looking east down dirt road. Commercial buildings and storefronts line the road. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | View from corner of storefronts. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians are in the street. There is a water fountain with a cup in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Large group of people posed in commercial area on a wooden sidewalk. Leigeois Bar, Implement Store, and Blacksmith Shop. Joseph Leigeois is shown in the fo... |
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| Description: | Corner of Grove and Mineral Streets with cars parked along the road. Storefronts line the streets. The Goodwill store, a used car dealership and a water to... |
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| Description: | View of an urban street with pedestrians, cable cars, and horse-drawn vehicles. The city could possibly be Milwaukee, on the left there is a Schlitz Milwau... |
| Date: | 01 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Five fire fighters, Kendall Niebuhr, William J. Sullivan, John G. Randall, Chief Edward J. Page, and Gill S. Stone, pose with newly customized rescue truck... |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Postcard of men and women marching in Madison, Wisconsin's Loyalty Parade through the streets of the city. |
| Date: | 05 10 1894 |
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| Description: | View of a ferry with the name Liberty from the Ohio River. A row of buildings in the background along a street near the river include a hotel. |
| Date: | 01 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Main Street (USH 10) in the village, with storefronts and a used car dealership. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A sidewalk view down 318 North Jefferson Street with Sebatian Gagliano's Florist Shop in the foreground. Several people stroll on the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | People cross a State Street intersection in the rain. The College Barber Shop and a Steak House is on the other side of the street. |
| Date: | 08 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the newly reconstructed East Washington Avenue, looking east at the 700 block. A water tower is on the right. |
| Date: | 08 18 1949 |
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| Description: | View down median strip of the newly reconstructed East Washington Avenue, looking east at the 600 block. |
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