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Photograph

Children on the Picket Line

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t...
Photograph

Trolley Car on Park Place

Date: 
Description: A street scene with a trolley car in the foreground. Up the small hill are two large buildings with people standing in front of the store windows, while a ...
Photograph

Sausage Display

Date: 04 15 1967
Description: Richard Bublitz, William Mackowiak and Edward McPhetridge looking through a window at a sausage display in a delicatessen owned by Charles E. (Bud) Gillett...
Photograph

Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: View through the living room's south wall window of the flagstone terrace, swimming pool, and bathhouse of the S.C. Gonstead residence in Mt. Horeb. Madiso...
Photograph

Window View

Date: 1968
Description: "Bonnie enjoys looking out of the window."
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: 1st and 2nd Residents

Date: 1926
Description: First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Playtime

Date: 1925
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 103-109

Date: 
Description: The style of reachings, temporal or spiritual, for transformation of the earth.

The chapel of Rockford Female Seminary, later Rockford College, 1889-1892...

Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 178-186

Date: 
Description: The fife and drum are not so innocent
the vulture's eye is on the dance
Photograph

Mayville Insurance Agency

Date: 07 1998
Description: Mayville Insurance Agency. (L-R) Brad Steinbach, Amanda Rose, Joyce Schuett, and Cindy Steinbach.
Photograph

International Scout 46

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated interior view of an International Scout 46 in a dealer setting. A mannequin of a man is positioned near the plate glass windows that face the side...
Photograph

Woman and View of River

Date: 04 10 2014
Description: The owner of La Crosse Radio Group, Jacklyn Daniels, gazes out of the window at the riverside. The event was the DMI Trend Showcase in the Cargill Room. S...
Photograph

All Aboard for Reierson Studio

Date: 1922
Description: Composite photograph of 65 photographic prints of young children and infants, trimmed out and attached to the photograph of an open bed truck parked in fro...
Photograph

Shafer Pharmacy

Date: 1982
Description: View of Williamson Street from inside Shafer Pharmacy. The owner, Hugh Hessman, is standing by a large arched window looking out onto the street. He wears ...
Photograph

Museum of Contemporary Art

Date: 09 2013
Description: View looking down at a staircase in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. On the ground floor is a wire sculpture that rises above the first landing of t...
Photograph

"Streets of Yesterday"

Date: 
Description: View of "Streets of Yesterday" at House on the Rock.
Photograph

In the Public Eye

Date: 04 09 1970
Description: Two women on the left are sitting at tables and talking into telephones. On the right are large show windows, and a bus and passers-by are visible through ...
Postcard

Rohde's Steakhouse

Date: 1954
Description: Two views of a restaurant, outdoor view, and indoor view of the bar area. Located at 613-617 W. Main Street.
Postcard

Davidson Cafeteria

Date: 
Description: Postcard with two views of the cafeteria. At the top is an exterior view of the cafeteria located at 117 Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevar...
Photograph

Parked Car Rolls Across Carroll Street

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: View from inside store of Ray Greene, shoe department manager for Karsten's men's store on Carroll Street on Madison's Capitol Square, standing in the door...

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