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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Gwinnette Court two-room tenement houses, which were inhabited by twelve families. "Note the filthy condition of the front yard." These were eliminated by ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Monona Bay from the railroad trestle looking southwest, close to where the railroad tracks cross North Shore Drive, (now Brittingham Park), with old houses... |
| Date: | 12 31 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of hermit George Smith's squalid shack, 2 miles southwest of Cottage Grove. |
| Date: | 09 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee amd N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
| Date: | 09 02 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee and N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
| Date: | 05 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Collapsed back wall of Netherwood's Printing Co., at 519 State Street. |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Tavern in a state of deterioration, with rubble in front. The tavern is partly obscured by an oak tree, and a white house stands behind the tavern. |
| Date: | 02 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Exterior of exotic-looking Old Carriage House on the northeast edge of Lake Kegonsa in Stoughton. John Williams, a steel magnate from Youngstown, Ohio, use... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of the front of Tenpin Alley, active in lead mining days. |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 07 1967 |
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| Description: | An old, broken farm machine rests on the ground, with an abandoned cottage in the background. |
| Date: | 09 01 1963 |
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| Description: | A view of an abandoned log cabin obscured by plants and trees. |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall at 118 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Boulevard). The building was three windows wide... |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned enlisted men's barracks at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 04 06 1975 |
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| Description: | View of the 2800 block of Atwood Avenue showing the condition of the sidewalk. Show three sets of people's legs walking toward a large hole and cracks in t... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin c... |
| Date: | 02 24 1959 |
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| Description: | View of a car driving over a pothole in a Madison street pavement. |
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