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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A rainy, nighttime view of the corner of Main and Carroll streets on the Capitol Square. The neon signs of the Prescription Pharmacy and the Park Hotel lig... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Capitol Square, looking northwest up Carroll Street at its intersection with Main Street. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Avenue at Sixth Street, looking east from near the front of the Milwaukee Public Library (left foreground). Taken at night; lighted clocks read 9... |
| Date: | 01 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the 24th US Infantry Division, carrying duffel bags, prepare to board a train to Northern Japan. |
| Date: | 09 28 1959 |
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| Description: | A priest genuflects while welcoming Bishop O'Connor back to Madison from his European trip. The bishop traveled in a 100 car motorcade from the railroad st... |
| Date: | 09 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Adlai Stevenson and Governor Gaylord Nelson attend the Wisconsin-Stanford football game which turned into a very rainy event. They left the game at half ti... |
| Date: | 09 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Rain dampens fans' spirit as they nestled in the shelter of the field house under the scoreboard during the first quarter of the W Club Day football game. |
| Date: | 12 03 1953 |
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| Description: | A newspaper salesman guarding his wares against a damp chilly wind. |
| Date: | 12 03 1953 |
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| Description: | A person is bicycling around Capitol Square in the rain. |
| Date: | 12 03 1953 |
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| Description: | A solitary woman is carrying an umbrella while crossing the street at the intersection of South Carroll and Main Streets. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in... |
| Date: | 12 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Three shoppers and two youngsters showing how you lean "left to buck the wind" when you cross Monona Avenue at the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Participants attending in a cornerstone laying ceremony for the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Building located at University of Wisconsin on a rainy day. ... |
| Date: | 04 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Rain in the street, and an arterial stop sign at Wakefield Street and Midvale Boulevard, with icicles hanging from the bottom of the sign. |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 05 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Former Madison resident, 86 year old William Nichols, listening to a talk at the Memorial Day ceremony, located at Central High School because of rain. He ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A policeman and a night watchman narrowly escaped injury when a huge mound of excavated dirt fell on a house adjacent to the new State Office building cons... |
| Date: | 04 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Zor Shrine group boarding their plane at the Madison airport for their tour of Hawaii. |
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