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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Looking West on Main Ave." View down center of commercial area, with automobiles moving down the street, and parked along the curbs. A U.S.... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Hamacher Hotel and Tavern, 302-306 West Mifflin Street, at the intersection of North Henry Street. Its demolition between 1955 and 195... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of an old stage inn located about two miles south of Shopiere. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Goodrich and turned into a... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The dining room of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph ... |
| Date: | 03 1951 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Spring Inn at 3706 Nakoma Road, built in 1854. A chair and a spinning wheel are in the foreground. Interior stairway, one of a seri... |
| Date: | 04 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Bee's Tavern women's bowling team, the champion team of the 1951 Madison Woman's Bowling Association. Pictured from left to right are... |
| Date: | 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east on Hubbard Street from the corner of Hubbard and Parmenter Streets. The old Schwab and Scwarz store, in the oldest building ... |
| Date: | 07 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Frankie's Tavern softball team in uniform, with the team manager and bat boys. |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| 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,... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | The official opening of Wade House. Amid great fanfare, complete with an appearance by poet Carl Sandburg, Wade House opened to the public on June 6th, 195... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Kodachrome postcard of the barroom, with two male mannequins in period dress standing at the bar. Text on reverse reads: "The Wade House is one of the f... |
| Date: | 05 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Six men are standing behind a shuffle board table, with one man holding a trophy, in John Gervasi's Tavern, 713 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Nationally famous Dukes of Dixieland performing at the Shuffle-Inn at 967 South Park Street. Frank Assuto is playing the trumpet, Fred Assuto is playing tr... |
| Date: | 03 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Police and state agents take a gaming machine out the door of the Wagon Wheel tavern, 203 East Washington avenue. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from behind bar towards a man standing on the left, and a group of men, women and children sitting at the bar. Pictured from left to right are Arni... |
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