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Joseph P. Woolsey at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Joseph P. Woolsey, Pres-Treasurer Heilman Baking Co., speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwauk...
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San W. Orr at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: San W. Orr, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroa...
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John Doris House

Date: 04 14 1948
Description: Exterior view from across an intersection of the John Doris house, 603-605 West Main Street at South Bedford Street. The home was once a hotel, now home to...
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Williamson Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view east from the corner of South Blair and Williamson Streets. On the left is Joe's News Store (Joseph J. Kuhn) 520 E. Wilson Street and a sign for th...
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul East Madison Railroad Station

Date: 1918
Description: The East Madison Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station, 501 East Wilson Street, from South Hancock Street, with Lake Monona in the background. ...
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul West Madison Station

Date: 1918
Description: The West Madison Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station, with train cars on the tracks. An automobile on West Washington Avenue crosses the trac...
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul West Madison Station

Date: 1918
Description: West Madison Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station, 644 West Washington Avenue. There are pedestrians and parked automobiles near the station.
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Illinois Central Railroad Station

Date: 1918
Description: Illinois Central Railroad station, 603 West Washington Avenue. The passenger depot is in the foreground, and the freight depot is across West Washington Av...
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Wind Storm Damage

Date: 10 10 1949
Description: Workers repair an electrical pole that was partially blown over during a wind storm. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Regent Street and West...
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Car Wreck and Train

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr....
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street. Rows of shops are on either side. Carriages and carts are parked along the curb. Streetlights hang from the utility lines. A railroa...
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Commercial Street Scene

Date: 1930
Description: View looking down a commercial street. Shops and cars in angled parking spaces line both sides of the paved street. A horse-drawn wagon is in the far dista...
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Dane Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down a commercial street. There is a meat market on the right, and railroad crossing gates further down the street near other commercial buildings.
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A Pretty Street

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Description: View down middle of street towards the railroad crossing at Military Road. There are shops on the left and right, and trees line the street in the backgrou...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down the unpaved Military Road. Two boys stand in the street on the left near the State Bank of Dane building. Near the railroad crossing, there is a ...
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Depot

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks of the exterior of the Mazomanie train depot. Two sets of railroad tracks are crossing a dirt road in the foreground, and a railr...
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East Main Street Looking West

Date: 1913
Description: View down Main Street, with a railroad crossing at the far end of the street. On the left is a shoe repair store, lumber business, and a lunch room with a ...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View down Main Street from between wooden sidewalk on the left, and the unpaved street on the right. Further down are commercial buildings lining both side...
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The Hotel Washington Fire

Date: 02 18 1996
Description: A view from Bedford Street of the smouldering ruins of the Hotel Washington. A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a parked firetruck. Water being us...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

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Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...

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