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Painting

Marquette and Joliet

Date: 1921
Description: Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th...
Photograph

Gates of Heaven and Floral Parade

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Description: A horse-drawn carriage decorated for a floral parade on West Washington Avenue. The carriage is passing in front of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue (the buil...
Photograph

Streetcar Track Construction on Capitol Square

Date: 1905
Description: Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot...
Photograph

K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b...
Photograph

Herman Amberg Preus Family and Visitors

Date: 1872
Description: The Herman Amberg Preus family and visitors, all wearing hats, are playing croquet in their yard. One child is on a rocking horse and another child is by a...
Photograph

Christian Keyser Preus Family at Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1873
Description: The Christian Keyser Preus family posing in the yard of the Spring Prairie parsonage with horse-drawn vehicles, and ducks. Behind them is a rural frame hou...
Painting

The New Synagogue in Ward II

Date: 1858
Description: A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt...
Photograph

Knights of Columbus Women's Group

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Large group of Knights of Columbus women, standing in front of buses made to look like railroad cars, returning from a convention held in Racine.
Photograph

First Presbyterian Church

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Description: View from unpaved street towards a church. Two men are standing ont he sidewalk in front of the picket fence in front of the church. The church was built i...
Photograph

Holy Name Society Procession

Date: 01 11 1953
Description: An honor guard of Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus leads a procession of 300 members of the Catholic Holy Name Society up the steps of St. Raphael's Cathe...
Postcard

Old Mission

Date: 1910
Description: View from pier towards the Old Mission in La Pointe on Madeline Island. Men are sitting at the shoreline. Caption reads: "Apostle Islands, Wis. Madeline Is...
Postcard

Methodist Church

Date: 1909
Description: Street scene featuring a Methodist church. In front of the church a young boy stands in the dirt road near a man sitting in a horse-drawn wagon with a dog....
Photograph

Martin Luther King, Jr. During Bus Ride

Date: 12 21 1956
Description: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro...
Photograph

Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly at Airport

Date: 06 23 1947
Description: Rt. Rev. Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly, retired pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Baraboo, is shown boarding an airliner at Madison Municipal Airport. On the ...
Photograph

Father Groppi and Vel Phillips on Hood of Bus

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Description: Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble...
Photograph

Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly at Airport

Date: 06 23 1947
Description: Rt. Rev. Msgr. E.C. O'Reilly, retired pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Baraboo, is shown boarding a airliner at Madison Municipal Airport with his s...
Photograph

Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, 4018 Mineral Point Road, is shown under construction.
Photograph

Poster Celebrating "The International Safari"

Date: 02 05 1929
Description: Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com...
Photograph

Jewish Relief Shipment

Date: 07 08 1948
Description: View from road of large stacks of boxes containing food and clothing on the lawn of Congregation Adas Jeshurun temple at the corner of Mound and Murray Str...
Photograph

Bishop William P. O'Connor

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison Catholic diocese as he boards a Chicago-bound train on the first leg of his trip to Rome, where he will report to...

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