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Thom McAn Shoe Store

Date: 08 15 1941
Description: Thom McAn shoe store, 224 State Street.
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Leaving Home for School

Date: 09 05 1931
Description: Two school children are playing with a girl sitting on a tricycle while walking to school.
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Policeman at Fair Oaks Avenue Accident

Date: 06 30 1931
Description: Policeman and another man (possibly Aldro Wasley) on Fair Oaks Avenue at scene of automobile accident. There is a University Floral Co. truck in background...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: Governor Walter Kohler and Sonja Iverson, Cambridge High School drum majorette, standing on West Mifflin Street during the Cambridge scrap metal parade aro...
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Lyle Lilly in Badger Ordnance Motorcyle Police Uniform

Date: 1944
Description: Lyle Lilly (1916-2011) stands in front of his home at 838 Woodrow Street in Madison, Wisconsin. He is wearing his motorcyle police uniform that he wore whi...
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Skiers Parade at Stoughton

Date: 1911
Description: Men carrying skis march behind a drummer down Main Street.
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 30 1953
Description: View from street of children and adults gathered along the sidewalk to watch as Madison observes Memorial Day with a parade and three memorial services aro...
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Parade at Midwest Shrine Convention

Date: 09 07 1956
Description: Children watch the parade from the curb at the Midwest Shrine parade.
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Conrad F. Kreuz and Curtis Shoes

Date: 1888
Description: View of three men standing together on the board sidewalk outside Kreuz and Curtis Shoes, 21 S. Pinckney Street. The men are wearing suits, ties and hats, ...
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Bernard Curran Passing Some Time

Date: 1982
Description: View down a curb towards a man standing on the sidewalk on the right leaning against a parking sign. He is wearing a hat and a striped shirt tucked into bl...
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Man with a Basket on a Bicycle

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Description: View from street towards a smiling man posing on a bicycle. He is caring a basket on his left arm, and is wearing a peaked cap and a suit with gaiters abov...
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Albert Camus in the Cafe

Date: 10 2013
Description: Low angle view of two people (faces out of frame) sitting on stools at a small square table next to a window at a cafe. Outside the window a man is riding ...
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Sid on a Fire Engine

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Description: View across street towards Sid standing on the back of a fire engine with a cigar in his mouth. A police officer wearing a uniform and a badge is standing ...
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Man and Woman Posing on Sidewalk

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Description: A man and a woman standing and posing together on a sidewalk near State and Gorham Streets. (Oscar Mayer's Coolerator store was located at 401-05 State Str...
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Muir Locust

Date: 1953
Description: A man and three women standing at the base of a large tree, identified as the Muir Locust. The tree grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisco...
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Dane County Council of Defense Food Board Curb Market

Date: 08 1917
Description: People stand near several carts, which are hitched to horses. In some carts boxes of vegetables are visible. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. August, 1917. Cu...
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Mae Woldenberg Building, Left Side

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards the left section of the Mae Woldenberg Building. The upper floors are apartments, and on the ground floor is the Blumen Ce...
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Officer Wilfred T. Schultz

Date: 1936
Description: A uniformed police officer stands in an intersection and holds his hand out in the direction of several children. Cars are in the background. Caption reads...
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Grand Jeté

Date: 1977
Description: A warmly dressed man is leaping off a curb and over a puddle of slush while crossing the street. There are automobiles in the background.
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"Hammer the Hun" Parade

Date: 1917
Description: A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them...

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