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Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Hydroplane

Date: 10 19 1911
Description: Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River...
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Lawson's Great Airliner

Date: 1921
Description: The completed Lawson L-4, the second and larger airplane designed and built by Alfred Lawson in Milwaukee in 1920. Not only was Lawson's airliner intended ...
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Pilot Behncke and ALPA

Date: 1920
Description: Commercial pilot Dave Behnke, who later headed Airline Pilots Association, signing for a load of airmail. After service as a pilot during World War I, Behn...
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Northwest Airways Air Mail Delivery

Date: 07 01 1933
Description: A Northwest Airways crew delivers a bag of airmail to Madison postmaster W.A. Devine. With him, posed in front of the Ford TriMotor, are pilots Elmer Wahl ...
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Civil War Army Post Office

Date: 08 1864
Description: Soldiers relax around the Army Post Office at the quarters of the Chief Ambulance Officer, Ninth Army Corps.
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Rennebohm's Drugstore #2 "Santa's Zoo" Window

Date: 11 11 1944
Description: The window of Rennebohm's Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, displaying Santa Claus and an array of stuffed animal toys, mainly Teddy bears. A sign on the dis...
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Rennebohm Display Window

Date: 11 30 1944
Description: Display window at Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, showing "His Gifts" and "Her Gifts" for Christmas. The sign painted on the window on the left ...
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Rennebohm Drug Store

Date: 01 14 1944
Description: Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren...
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Wadhams Oil Co. Float

Date: 08 28 1937
Description: Wadhams Oil Company float in the Elks Parade, with a child "driving" a Mobile Oil Flying Red Horse symbol. The float is on E. Doty Street with the Post Off...
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Panoramic View of East Side of Monona Avenue

Date: 03 27 1931
Description: Panoramic elevated view of the east side of Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,) showing Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction e...
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Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Machine and Foundry road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Road Show on Monona...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 15 1929
Description: Finished face brickwork at opening F-31 looking northeast.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 04 23 1927
Description: Reinforcing steel in main wall footing, East Doty Street side, looking toward corner of Monona Avenue.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 15 1929
Description: Exterior view of rear of finished Post Office and Courthouse, with snow on the ground.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 08 01 1928
Description: View looking north from corner of Monona Avenue and Wilson Street of front and side of the building, with workmen finishing the basement level. Automobiles...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View looking north at front and side of U.S. Post Office and Courthouse from Wilson Street. Automobiles are parked along the curbs, and there is a construc...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 10 01 1928
Description: View looking north from rear parking lot and loading dock showing King Street Arcade, Cantwell Building, 121 South Pinckney Street, Riley Bremer Riley Olds...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 10 01 1928
Description: View looking south showing driveway, parking lot and north side of loading dock at rear of building.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 11 01 1928
Description: View looking east across intersection towards the nearly completed front and north side of the building. Looking from Doty Street across Monona Avenue with...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 08 01 1928
Description: View looking east from Doty Street at the front and side, with automobiles and construction shacks and a sign that reads: "United States Post Office & Cour...

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