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Police Officers

Date: 11 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of police officers taken in front of the Madison Police Station at 14-16 South Webster Street. They are members of the Police School 1934-19...
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School Field Trip to the U.S. Post Office

Date: 03 23 1932
Description: A man is leading Dudgeon School children through the mail sorting area on their tour of the post office.
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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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Madison Water Works

Date: 1900
Description: The Madison City Water Works pumping station at the intersection of Gorham and Livingston which provided pressure to the city's mains. A group of people st...
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State Assembly Audience

Date: 1947
Description: Audience at a session of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Funds received from the sale of Easter seals each spring provide the taxi service necessary to tranport the handicapped members of the Happy Hours club to ...
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Wisconsin State Historical Society Building

Date: 1967
Description: Color postcard of an exterior view of the Wisconsin State Historical Society Building, now the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Students a...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: An interior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the s...
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Sequoya Branch Library Ground-Breaking

Date: 11 23 1959
Description: Individuals breaking ground for the new Sequoya branch of the Madison Public Library at the Midvale Plaza shopping center. The building is being constructe...
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East Side Postal Station to Open

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Madison postal officials looking over mail ready for processing through the new East Side postal station. Left to right: John F. Whitmore, postmaster; Arv...
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Waiting for the Bus

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Description: An elderly woman sitting on a bench while waiting for a bus in a bus shelter. Behind her is a window which looks down the street.
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: People waiting in line to mail their letters, packages and parcels in the lobby of the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. A woman is standing at t...
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Opening of a print exhibition at the Madison Art Association. Shown are Professor D.A. Severino and Professor (of math) Rudolph Langer.
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Pointing at a print on the wall is University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod (who lived on 715 East Gorham Street) as Professor Michael And...
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Second-Class Airman Joseph Narajka stationed at Truax Field studies another exhibit at the show as he tells his friend, Nancy Zimmerman (who lived on 1010 ...
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Print Show

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Rebekah Cochran (center), who lived on 1118 Seminole Highway, is pointing to a print as Professor James Watrous (right) of the U.W. Art History Department ...
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Here members of Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta welcomed a group of happy youngsters at Neighborhood House located at 29 South Mills Street. The party i...
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Empty Stocking Club Christmas Toy Depot

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Members of the Marine Corps Reserves Fourth Automatic Weapons Battery pitch in to help set up the depot, help move equipment and wrap presents for the Empt...
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...
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Voters

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: Three voters and a young observer at the Third Ward polling place in the City-County Building.

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