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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A view down State Street looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F... |
| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Madison Consumers Dairy Co-operative, probably located at 102 South Dickinson Street, with the milkmen posing next to their home delivery t... |
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| Description: | A man holding a bottle of milk is standing and posing next to a horse-drawn Gridley Dairy milk wagon. Two other men are standing on the left near a brick b... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A line of Kennedy Dairy horse-drawn wagons with drivers posing beside them. For Quaker Oats Farm. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | King Street, looking past the Majestic Theater, with the Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh's airplane, "Spirit of St. Louis," while visiting Madison. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The "Spirit of St. Louis," flown by Charles Lindbergh, was the first airplane to fly non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927. Lindbergh returned to Madison... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Windsled "Hurricane Hazel" on Chequamegon. One man is sitting in the windsled, Another man is standing on the ice. |
| Date: | 05 16 1973 |
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| Description: | View of the ferry "Gar-How" taken from on board the ferry "Island Queen" while both were docked at Madeline Island. The "Gar-How" was named after Howard Ru... |
| Date: | 05 16 1973 |
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| Description: | Steel-hulled ferry "Nichevo II" at the city dock in La Pointe. The "Nichevo II" began service in 1962. It was built by Fraser Shipyards of Superior for Har... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Uniformed soldiers marching in a World War I homecoming parade. Many men are carrying flags, and the street is heavily decorated with U.S. flags. The soldi... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen. "Several dairies have volunteered to... |
| Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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| Description: | A crowd lined up on opening night at the Eastwood Theatre at 2090 Atwood Avenue. This view of the facade shows an unfinished dome on top of the building. |
| Date: | 07 24 1933 |
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| Description: | A man in a car poses in front of A. Sinaiko Hay, Flour and Feed at 653 West Washington Avenue. |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat the "Lion" on the Mississippi River, at sunset. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Buddy L toy model S truck hauling California Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Model S truck with delivery body, Pacifico and Petlovany Bakery. |
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