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University Heights

Date: 1898
Description: University Heights from the Chemistry Building on University Avenue. View includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison football field, on the former site o...
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Fitzpatrick Lumber Company Houses

Date: 11 23 1938
Description: A row of houses at 826, 830, 834 & 838 North Fair Oaks Avenue built by the Fitzpatrick Lumber Company in what was the Town of Blooming Grove, now near East...
Photograph

North Gardens Subdivision Entrance

Date: 08 26 1928
Description: Front view of the entrance to the North Gardens subdivision, on the corner of North Street and Hoard Street, owned by the Paul E. Stark Company. The stone ...
Photograph

North Gardens Subdivision Entrance

Date: 07 26 1928
Description: Entrance to the North Gardens subdivision on the corner of North Street and Hoard Street, owned by Paul E. Stark Company.
Poster

Elmside Addition to Madison

Date: 
Description: Poster advertising the Elmside lots for summer homes by Lake Monona.
Map or Atlas

100 Valuable Building Lots in Belmont

Date: 1836
Description: Lots to be sold at auction by Van Antwerp and Van Dyke on Monday, 3rd Oct. 1836. The map shows plots and labeled streets. Iowa County was later split and B...
Photograph

New Parking Lot

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: Cars park in a new parking lot at the former site of Washington School at 217 North Broom Street.
Map or Atlas

Zoning Map Showing Use Districts Town of Wauwatosa Milwaukee County Wisconsin

Date: 1939
Description: This is a zoning map of Wauwatosa with a key of districts including agricultural, resident, business, commercial, and industrial. The map features labeled ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of La Crosse Accompanied by Plats of Various Subdivisions of the City

Date: 1874
Description: This map of La Crosse is accompanied by other plats of subdivision of the city. The relief is shown by hachures. The additions include: Rudolf Gripps Addit...
Photograph

University Hill Farms Development

Date: 01 31 1964
Description: Aerial view of University Hill Farms area which has grown from a cow pasture to a square-mile housing and business area. 4,000 people live in 750 single-fa...
Photograph

Demolition At "30 on the Square" Site

Date: 12 16 1964
Description: View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki...
Map or Atlas

Part of Kaukauna Showing Green Bay & Miss. Canal Co's Property

Date: 1891
Description: This blueprint manuscript map shows land owned by Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co., Meade, Vilas, Patten, and Hewitt. Streets and the Fox River are labele...
Map or Atlas

Hudson Park : a Part of Sec. 6 & 7, T7N R10E Dane Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1902
Description: This blueprint map shows land parcels, parks, blocks, and streets in the region north to Atwood Avenue, south to Lake Monona, west to Evergreen Avenue, and...
Map or Atlas

Round Top [in Madison, Wisconsin] With Prices

Date: 1910
Description: This blueprint plat map shows the plan of lots and streets on a Madison hill south of Lake Monona. Includes annotations showing land prices in pencil.
Map or Atlas

Pell Lake, Wis. : Bloomfield Township, Walworth County, T1N R18E

Date: 1937
Description: This cadastral map shows lots, streets, and Pell Lake. The back of the map includes a large advertisement for the Pell Lake Addition summer home lots.
Photograph

Stanley Hanks Bungalows

Date: 
Description: View across field or vacant lot of grass towards the Stanley Hanks bungalows located at 211-219 Lake Lawn Place off Langdon Street. Hanks probably built th...
Photograph

Apartment Building

Date: 09 30 1953
Description: Six-unit apartment building at 2902 Harvey Street at Ridge Street, built in 1953.
Photograph

Hilldale Shopping Center Construction

Date: 04 03 1962
Description: View looking south from the Shorewood bluff of the Hilldale Shopping Center under construction. Apartments and houses in the Hill Farms neighborhood are in...
Photograph

Excavation Site for State Office Building Wing

Date: 04 08 1957
Description: Elevated view from the top of central section of the State Office Building at 1 West Wilson Street, showing earth moving equipment at the excavation site f...
Photograph

Hilldale Shopping Center

Date: 1962
Description: Aerial view of the Hilldale Shopping Center and environs. Anchor store is Gimbels. N. Midvale Boulevard runs left to right. The State Department of Transpo...

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