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Capitol Square Panorama

Date: 10 28 1956
Description: View of the East Main Street side of Capitol Park, one of four images making up a panorama of the southeast side of the Capitol Square, showing the Wiscons...
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Capitol Square Panorama

Date: 10 28 1956
Description: View of the South Pinckney Street side of the Capitol Square, one of four images making up a panorama of the southeast side of the Capitol Square. Pictured...
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Capitol Square Panorama

Date: 10 28 1956
Description: Close-up of Tenney Building at the corner of South Pinckney and East Main Street on the Capitol Square. Businesses pictured on South Pinckney Street includ...
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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.
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Madison Public Library Bookmobile

Date: 07 11 1957
Description: Exterior view of the new Madison Public Library bookmobile parked in front of the City-County building on Monona Boulevard.
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D-X Service Station, 2620 Monroe Street

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Schmelzer Brothers D-X service station, from 1951-1968, a mid-century modern service station at 2620 Monroe Street at the corner of Knickerbocker Street. A...
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Trinity Lutheran Church Education Wing

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: Interior finishing work is being completed on the $250,000 addition to Trinity Lutheran Church at 1904 Winnebago Street. The building will house the church...
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Aftermath of Fire

Date: 01 05 1958
Description: View of the badly damaged house at left, and a pile of rubble at right where the home of William and Gladys McGrath once stood. Both McGraths were killed i...
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Auto Buy Week

Date: 05 02 1958
Description: Winston Smith and his son, Wade, sit in their restored 1909 Cadillac automobile before the "You Auto Buy Now" parade.
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building...
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building...
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Fire at Kindschi Leather Company

Date: 12 07 1958
Description: A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company, 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building, known as the Burrows building,...
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June Dairy Month on Capitol Square

Date: 06 08 1959
Description: 4-H members, some of them dressed in old-fashioned costumes, serving homemade cakes and donated ice cream at an ice cream social on the Capitol Square. Pro...
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Bicyle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: A girl and a boy, both wearing crowns, are posing on the open back of a convertible top automobile. They are the queen and king of the Bicycle Safety Week ...
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Bicycle Safety Week Parade on Square

Date: 06 19 1959
Description: More than 20 children sit on decorated bicycles as part of the 200 children who paraded around the square as 1,500 persons watched during the Bicycle Safet...
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Madison Hotel

Date: 07 30 1959
Description: Madison Hotel, located at 108 North Pinckney, is the oldest building on the Capitol Square and one of Madison's oldest landmarks. It was built in 1838. It ...
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We Saw You . . . at Watermelon Festlival

Date: 08 30 1959
Description: President Edward Herzfeldt selling tickets for the Monona Grove Businessmen's Association-sponsored Watermelon Festival. Ticket buyers, left to right, incl...
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Bishop O'Connor Returns from European Trip

Date: 09 28 1959
Description: A priest genuflects while welcoming Bishop O'Connor back to Madison from his European trip. The bishop traveled in a 100 car motorcade from the railroad st...
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Deer Hunters Display Trophies on Car

Date: 11 1959
Description: Danny Sands and Dick Goldfield (right) standing by a wood-sided station wagon with two deer tied to the front hood lid, and a third deer on top of the car....

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