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Drawing

Lower Campus Development

Date: 1908
Description: Drawing of lower campus development of the University of Wisconsin Madison campus, designed by Arthur Peabody. Left to right along Lake Street are the Mus...
Postcard

Library Park

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Description: View of plaza with lamppost and a monument on the lawn on the left. Caption reads: "Library Park, Kenosha, Wis."
Photograph

Statue of Franklin Pierce

Date: 1915
Description: A statue of Franklin Pierce in a park plaza surrounded by trees. The capitol building surmounted by the original war eagle statue fills the background.
Photograph

Playland

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Description: A view of Playland, an amusement center with a fountain, a plaza and a casino. Pedestrians stroll across the plaza and three flags fly above the sprawling...
Photograph

City Park Plaza

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Description: An elevated view of a city park plaza featuring a fountain, stone walkways and stairs and a central domed stone building.
Photograph

Jarvis Plaza

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Description: A lighted brick platform in Jarvis Plaza with Mercy Hospital in the background. Paved paths lead to the central platform and parkgoers relax on benches.
Photograph

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of shoreline, waterfront buildings, boat-dotted bay and Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. The pink-marble, column-shaped monu...
Photograph

Juarez Plaza

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Description: View of Juarez Plaza, a fashionable park square featuring a monument and an elaborately decorated bandstand. People gather on park benches and stand near t...
Photograph

Fountain and Bandstand in Hidalgo Plaza

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Description: View down brick walkway with benches on both sides toward a fountain, with a bandstand behind it in a park in Hidalgo Plaza.
Photograph

Crowd in Balboa Park

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Description: A crowd walks down a road in Balboa Park, located at the Plaza de Panama. Elaborately decorated buildings line both sides of the road.
Photograph

Vietnamese Air Raid Shelters

Date: 1967
Description: Individual air raid shelters in the courtyard of the hotel where journalist David Schoenbrun was staying in Hanoi in 1967. There is a chicken coop behind t...
Photograph

Town Green and Shopping Area

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Description: View down a street dividing the town green from the shopping area.
Photograph

Union Members Marching

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Description: Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 march across a plaza in protest. Some are carrying signs shaped like giant pennies. Disab...
Photograph

Cranberry Cooking

Date: 02 1989
Description: Outdoor gathering of men, women and children cooking cranberries in a large kettle, perhaps at a winter festival.
Photograph

Fountain near Courthouse

Date: 1910
Description: View of a fountain in the garden of the courthouse, constructed from 1906-1908.
Postcard

Monument Square

Date: 1975
Description: Photographic postcard view of Monument Square looking south. In the bottom right corner, a man sits on a bench looking at the fountain. The Civil War Soldi...
Photograph

Daley Plaza Sculpture

Date: 06 1983
Description: "This modern sculpture is in Chicago." The photograph features an untitled sculpture by Pablo Picasso, completed in 1967 and located in Daley Plaza.
Photograph

Henry Clay Monument

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Description: View of the Henry Clay Monument with a statue of Clay inside. In front stand two young girls wearing dresses. Each girl is holding a pet rabbit. On the rig...
Photograph

Fire Prevention Week Floats and Trucks

Date: 1971
Description: International Harvester Scouts and Travelalls hooked to floats for a Fire Prevention Week parade. The trucks are parked in a line in a plaza near two fount...
Photograph

Earth Day Globe

Date: 1995
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd of people wearing hard hats gathered on the National Mall. They are building a huge model of the planet Earth for the 25th A...

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