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Schadauer Tobacco Store

Date: 1880
Description: A man posing in the open doorway of Julius Schadauer's tobacco shop at 101 State Street. The sign above the doorway reads: "Schadauer of Cigars Fact. No 62...
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Large Animal Sculptures

Date: 05 31 1965
Description: A row of sculptured horses and a cow's head at the Creative Display Company, currently known as the FAST Corporation.
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Add-a-Toy Mountain

Date: 12 17 1930
Description: View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta...
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Lincoln Statue

Date: 06 03 1928
Description: View towards the statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Orpheum Theatre Ushers

Date: 04 10 1927
Description: Group portrait of new Orpheum Theatre ushers. Behind the group is a statue of a boy with a goat on a pedestal near the "Aisle 2" doors to the auditorium.
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Capitol Park Statue "Forward"

Date: 1893
Description: "Forward", the statue created by Jean Pond Miner of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Women's Memorial at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. The statue is seen on...
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Demolition

Date: 1906
Description: Only the salvaged planking behind the "Forward" statue created by Jean Pond Miner indicates that anything more is going on in this picture than a peaceful ...
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International Bus

Date: 11 09 1926
Description: Laura Stewart and her Jazz Pirates pose alongside an International bus. The bus features windows with curtains and luggage rack(?) on top. There is a monum...
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Belmont Hotel

Date: 1938
Description: View of the Belmont Hotel from the Capitol Grounds. Hommel Bros., with "Good Things to Eat," is on the corner at 20 West Mifflin Street.
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Centennial Fair Preparations

Date: 08 1948
Description: Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair.
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Toothpick Sculpture

Date: 05 16 1957
Description: Kenneth Mills, 10, with his toothpick sculpture that he named "Pickalator." The work was part of an exhibit of children's art at Racine's Wustum Museum of ...
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Stone Eagle

Date: 10 05 1975
Description: Statue of a stone eagle on a pedestal in front of the Eagles Club at 1236 Jenifer Street.
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Wisdom Sculpture

Date: 04 18 1976
Description: Sculpture representing Wisdom above the south portico of the Wisconsin State Capitol building along South Hamilton Street. Wisdom holds a winged skull whic...
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Old Abe Sculpture

Date: 09 26 1976
Description: A stone sculpture of the eagle Old Abe, mascot of the Civil War Eighth Wisconsin Infantry. The stylized sculpture of an eagle features "Old Abe" carved in ...
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Gundry, Gray and Company Furniture Store

Date: 1935
Description: The Gundry, Gray and Company Furniture Store with a sculpture of a dog mounted on the store sign.
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Gundry, Gray and Company Furniture Store

Date: 1935
Description: The Gundry, Gray and Company Furniture Store, with a scuplture of a dog mounted on the store sign.
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Gundry, Gray and Company Storefront

Date: 1975
Description: View looking up at the dog statue on the front of the Gundry, Gray and Company Store.
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Saint Clara Academy

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the Saint Clara Academy. Caption reads: "Grotto of Our Lade of Lourdes, Saint Clara Academy, Sinsinawa Wiscons...
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"Genesis" Sculpture

Date: 1930
Description: The "Genesis" sculpture by Schaler, on the campus of Ripon College.
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Bennett's Table Talk

Date: 1968
Description: Large mouse being lifted by crane onto Bennett's Table Talk at 211-213 Broadway.

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