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| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | The Liquor Shop, at 101 West Mifflin Street. Liquor bottles are on display in the show windows. A sign in the window reads: "Go Shopping in the Madison New... |
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| Description: | Several pedestrians walking near the Wisconsin National Bank building. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior from Bascom Hill of side entrance of Birge Hall (Biology building) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A tree in front of the building ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A sign with a garland around it, and pennants on poles are hanging above a plaque at International Harvester's Breslau branch house. The sign is in German,... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck used by the Ideal Laundry Company. In the background is a building with a sign over the door that say... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of the entrance to the Daniel Boone Tavern, possibly from 1920. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the central business district. The Avoca Cooperative Company is on the street corner on the left. Three men congregate near a car parked a... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of bank building with empty lots on either side. The wording on the door reads, "Banking Hours 9 to 4." A "Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance" sig... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View across street of five men posing on the sidewalk outside the State Bank. Next door to the bank, on the left, is the City Meat Market. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Mindoro high school and grade school, housed in the same two-story, brick building. A plaque in front of the school commemorates Farmi... |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the First State Capitol, which is a wood frame building, painted white, with a flag and a plaque in front. Caption reads: "First Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Cohen and Robert Ball sit on a stage behind a table listening to a speaker at the podium during a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the social ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1968 |
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| Description: | View towards podium of Wilbur Cohen presenting Arthur Altmeyer, the first director of the Social Security Board, with a plaque at the anniversary celebrati... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of Milwaukee Street, with storefronts, parked cars and a small monument in the middle of the street. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 11 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Raymond Sivesind, director of the sites and markers program of the State Historical Society, as a speaker in the dedication and unveiling ceremony, stands ... |
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| Description: | View across road towards a white sign that reads: "First Capital State Park" that includes an arrow pointing towards two white buildings in the background,... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across West Gilman Street towards the Grimm Book Bindery. Two plaques are on either side of the door, and a sign above the doorway, all read: "Grimm B... |
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| Description: | This very spot, where a memorial plaque is being installed, is the scene of the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo. |
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