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| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
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| Description: | View from the western countryside towards Lake Wingra, looking east. In the foreground is a dirt road and fence. |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | View towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from the outlying area around Madison. Just beyond the cornfield in the foreground are buildings, one with a sign ... |
| Date: | 09 03 1918 |
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| Description: | A Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplane / biplane in flight over the Weber Farm south of Lake Monona. Titled in the album "The First Aeroplane in Madison". "The f... |
| Date: | 09 03 1918 |
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| Description: | Three Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplanes / biplanes parked in a field with onlookers. An automobile is parked nearby. Airplanes have a black cat symbol in a c... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Yahara River at the Steensland Bridge. A man stands on the bank. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of house with porch and yard on highway 113. Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 02 09 1949 |
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| Description: | One of four aerial views of the Edwin Blaney farm and farm buildings surrounded by snow-covered fields. Four miles south of Madison and a mile west of U.S.... |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
| Date: | 09 26 1949 |
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| Description: | A car drives down the western portion of the newly opened Madison belt line. The view is looking northwest in the region of Gilbert road (also Whitney Way)... |
| Date: | 10 19 1949 |
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| Description: | "Potter's Field," a cemetery site of the county asylum near Verona. One of the proposed areas for the construction of a county hospital for the chronically... |
| Date: | 02 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Smoldering ruins of the Virgil Normington home in the town of Madison, a half-mile south of the Badger School on E. Badger Road at Rimrock Road. |
| Date: | 07 30 1960 |
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| Description: | View towards horizon of long shadows stretching across a large field. Small plants grows in the foreground. |
| Date: | 07 30 1960 |
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| Description: | View towards a field of corn and a farm and the power lines which run along a road. A tall industrial tower rises in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the Fish River, used at the Wisconsin Fish Hatchery. Rows of trees line the river's edge. |
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| Description: | A litter of puppies stand on a wooden structure with (presumably) their mother below them in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A horse stands in a field with trees, rigged up to an empty carriage. |
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