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The Newsboy Statue and Fountain

Date: 1895
Description: View of a statue and fountain in a grassy park depicting a boy selling a newspaper. Installed in 1895 and funded by Colonel William L. Brown, the statue c...
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Paper Boy Delivering Newspapers

Date: 1918
Description: A boy wearing a coat and hat standing on a sidewalk while delivering newspapers to nearby homes. Attached to his newspaper bag is a sign reading: "Cook Cou...
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We Like Ike

Date: 11 1952
Description: John Lavine (left), Nancy Jane Nelson, Virginia Rafshol, and Gary Berger indicate their support for the presidential candidacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower. As ...
Postcard

Views of Brandon, Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard of a collage of 5 views of Brandon including; Washington St., Public Square, Times Office, High School, and Depot & Park.
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Modern Home Hotel

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Description: Front porch at Modern Home Hotel. There is a drinking fountain in the foreground on the left. The furniture on the porch includes a desk, rocking chairs, a...
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Coin Wash on Williamson Street

Date: 1982
Description: View down a sidewalk towards three people waiting outside of a coin laundromat on Williamson Street. Two women, one on steps of a doorway and another near ...
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Sid Reading Newspaper in his Backyard

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Description: Sid sitting on a stool on top of his "Hippopotamus" sculpture in his backyard at 237 Waubesa Street. He has a cigar in his mouth and is reading a newspaper...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison neighborhood street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal. One house on this paper route has a front yard enclos...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison residential street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal on their paper route.
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Row of two-story houses along the newspaper route in a Madison neighborhood, where the carriers throw their papers to the doorstep.
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Decorated Fraternity House

Date: 10 1955
Description: A neo-classical styled fraternity house on Langdon Street. Fraternity brothers, waving, fill an upper balcony above four large pillars, from which a sign i...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 09 03 1957
Description: Newspaper boy Mathew Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, placing a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal behind a screen door of a private residence.
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Mathew Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, checks-in with his Wisconsin State Journal district manager Clint Vondoll, who is sitting ...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Sidney Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, collecting money for the delivery subscription of the Wisconsin State Journal from custome...
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W.A. Holt and Rev. J.R. Macartney escorting the Holt Children Home from Sunday School

Date: 1902
Description: W.A. Holt and Rev. John Robertson Macartney are escorting the Holt children home from Sunday School. Names from left to right: W.A. Holt, Alfred Holt, Jean...

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