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| Description: | The Chicago Housing Authority's Prairie Avenue Court public house project was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #410 in 1950. The... |
| Date: | 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Southwest view of 50 E. Huron Street. This house was the residence of Cyrus McCormick Jr. Snow is on the ground. Tall buildings and a water tower are in th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, in his U.S. Navy dress blues uniform, posing and standing on a metal railing on the platform of a tall structure, possibly a lighthouse o... |
| Date: | 09 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a man selling newspapers from a delivery truck. Pedestrians and city buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is operating an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Men are in the background standing near a pile of sandbags. Tal... |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is operating an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Tall buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Tall buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men standing outdoors and looking at a map. Behind them is a dump truck and a loader/backhoe. In the background is a city s... |
| Date: | 03 26 1928 |
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| Description: | Harvester building on the corner of a street. |
| Date: | 05 04 1928 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of men and women in the McCormick Works' choral society. In the background on the right is a statue of Abraham Lincoln. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Alfred Clas design drawing of a scheme for the improvement of the Milwaukee River, with possibilities of narrowing the river and paralleling the banks with... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Capitol's West Washington entrance. Lake Monona is on the right, and Lake Mendota is on the left. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Capitol Square from over Wisconsin Avenue. MATC Downtown in the foreground. Caption reads: "Aerial Vew, Looking S.E., showing State Capitol,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Twilight view of the Madison skyline across Lake Monona. Caption reads: "Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol at Night, Madison, Wisconsin." |
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| Description: | Color aerial postcard of the Isthmus from over Lake Monona. John Nolen Drive is along the shoreline in the foreground. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in th... |
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| Description: | Sepia-toned postcard towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona. There are trees and a pier in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Text on back reads: The Madison skyline from across Lake Monona with the new Monona Terrace Convention Center. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Capitol facing Lake Mendota. The Spirit of St. Louis is superimposed on the postcard. Landmarks include the glass bank, the YWCA and Jam... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | View of the Madison skyline from Lake Monona in the moonlight. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a VA Hospital from across a lawn with small trees. |
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