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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, motoring in the country in a Crosley car. Another car is behind them. |
| Date: | 09 28 1942 |
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| Description: | Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | People riding decorated bicycles in a 4th of July parade. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Commercial building with road (Broad Street) in foreground. Cars are parked in the lot, with Village Hall and residences in the background. |
| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | James Robinson and E. Newton of the Professional Pharmacy prepare to load a Linde oxygen tank for home delivery. |
| Date: | 11 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Built in 1855 and designed by Milwaukee architect James Douglas, the Grace Episcopal Church is the oldest remaining building on the Capitol Square. Grace E... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A small dog stands beside a large statue (appears to be carved out of wood) advertising Pompy Cigars, outside of a drugstore. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of men building a corderoy road in the 1860's. Used for historical display for the Wisconsin State Highway Department. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from driveway of the entry to the Hillside Playhouse, with a large tree obscuring part of the building in the background. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Service station of an International motor truck dealership, the O.S. Stapley Company of Phoenix. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a... |
| Date: | 10 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Earl Sloan farm near Madison taken for the Wisconsin Power & Light Company. |
| Date: | 10 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray Haupt farm near Madison, taken for Wisconsin Power & Light. |
| Date: | 09 11 1945 |
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| Description: | An automobile parked in front of the West Side Fountain operated by John P. Stein and Joseph Scalissi with Borden's Ice Cream, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi and Royal ... |
| Date: | 04 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm buildings including barns, three silos and a corn crib on Duborg Road off of Highway 16 west of Columbu... |
| Date: | 04 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Kleinheinz Hall (old Sheep Barn) at 1815 Linden Drive on University of Wisconsin campus. |
| Date: | 03 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Kleinheinz Hall (old Sheep Barn) at 1815 Linden Drive on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Building was used as housing for United States Navy Radio ... |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with automobile parked in front of barricade at west end of Edgewood Drive. |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Looking towards the stone bridge on Edgewood Drive. |
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