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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Losey Memorial Arch, built in honor of Joseph W. Losey. Mr. Losey was an early pioneer lawyer of the town, made District Attorney in 1857 and City Atto... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of men standing on the lawn in front of the Wisconsin Territorial Capitol. They are standing near the monument of a shell of the Civil War period, rec... |
| Date: | 08 1931 |
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| Description: | The Beaumont memorial marker on the site of Fort Crawford. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Old Fort Winnebago Military Cemetery". View through the open gates of the cemetery. Trees surround a monument just inside the gates. |
| Date: | 04 29 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Armistice Day ceremony, looking down State Street, with a drum and bugle corps on the left and other veterans in uniform standing at attention near the cen... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Upper portion of the facade of an old, run-down building. Faded letters frame an old window or door say: "City of New York / Dept. of Docks." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view. Sign on front of City Hall reads: "Help Prevent Fires," and the Henry Bergh statue and fountain is in front of the building. Severa... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue, looking east from Court of Honor. Caption reads: "Court of Honor, Looking East, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Front facade of library building from across the street behind a median strip, which has a statue and a sign that reads "Keep Off the Grass". Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | City Hall Square. A statue on a grassy pedestal is in the center of the road in front of the hotel. A grey building is to the left of the hotel on the stre... |
| Date: | 03 26 1966 |
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| Description: | Standing near the Lincoln Statue on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Historian Staughton Lynd speaks to a nighttime, anti-war demonstrat... |
| Date: | 04 1925 |
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| Description: | A church is in the distance at the end of the road. On either side of the street are homes and stores, with a street light suspended above the street in t... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Bascom Hall from Bascom Hill (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A few people are sitting on the lawn in front of ... |
| Date: | 11 25 1925 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the Excelsior Laundry Company is parked along a street in front of a monument for the Fort Dearborn massacre. The lettering ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An outdoor exhibit, possibly at Tower Hill State Park, with a display featuring a "pig of lead" found near the shot tower there. There is also a bronze pla... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across road of the first Wisconsin territorial Capitol building, as restored, in Old Belmont (later changed to Leslie). |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of horse-drawn wagon on a tree-lined city street in a United Public Workers parade/demonstration. The wagon has a number of boys in it w... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Cars and shops line the street. The Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War memorial is in the far background at the top of the hill. |
| Date: | 09 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Grand Avenue. A streetcar and a horse-drawn wagon are coming up the avenue. There are monuments in the median. |
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