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| Date: | 04 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre at 211 or 213? State Street. Entrance under construction is between Fred W. Kruse Co. and Peoples Clothing Co. stores. |
| Date: | 08 17 1933 |
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| Description: | Crowd assembled outside the RKO Orpheum Theatre to watch "Tugboat Annie" on MGM's traveling theatre. Speths Clothing and other businesses in the 200 block ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking east from Johnson Street, towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. On the corner on the left is Glasgow Tailers, and further up the b... |
| Date: | 01 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Snow-dusted Eastwood Theatre, 2090 Atwood Avenue with "The Viking" and "Skin Deep - Coming Soon" on the marquee. |
| Date: | 05 20 1930 |
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| Description: | The exterior of the Fox Strand Theatre on Mifflin Street, with the marquee advertising the "The Arizona Kid." |
| Date: | 08 18 1932 |
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| Description: | View of the Parkway Theatre marquee down West Mifflin Street, and a sign for the "RKO's Greater Show Season and Merchant's Greater Selling Season" on a lam... |
| Date: | 05 05 1934 |
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| Description: | Madison's City Hall, erected in 1858, and designed by Samuel Hunter Donnel and August Kutzbock. The Parkway Theatre is next door on the left. |
| Date: | 09 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Garrick Theater at 115 Monona Avenue. The view also contains the Kehoe Cigars store, Savidusky's at 113 Monona Avenue, Jimmy Dodge Bil... |
| Date: | 01 24 1936 |
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| Description: | The Orpheum Theatre canopy and sign at night on the 200 block of State Street. The Orpheum Theatre marquee notes: "Shep Fields" on stage, and "Kind Lady" o... |
| Date: | 09 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theatre marquee, 216 State Street, featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer in "The Great Ziegfeld." View also includes Weber's Restaur... |
| Date: | 11 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Refurbished facade of Madison Theatre, 111 Monona Avenue. The building includes the temporary quarters of Savidusky's Cleaners and Dyers. |
| Date: | 06 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the roof of the Loraine Hotel. In the background is Lake Mendota on the left, and on the right is Lake Mo... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A man hitching Tommy, the Arabian stallion acting horse, to an International Metro AM-120 truck on Broadway as a part of Tommy's stable-to-theatre shuttle.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Members of Minneapolis Chapter No. 1 of "World's War Disabled American Veterans" (World War I) posing with musical instruments in a city street in front of... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The buildings pictured made up what was called the Opera House Block, located at the intersection of Main and South Second Streets. The businesses housed t... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Capitol Theatre at night with sign and marquee, located at 209-211 State Street. On the left is the Fred W. Kruse Co., and on the righ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Fuller Opera House looking over seats to the stage with 1,200 seats on a main floor, a second-level balcony, a third-level gallery, and ten... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | City Hall at the intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue and the Fuller Opera House on Mifflin Street. Snow on the ground. Both buildings were... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Fuller Opera House, which is a detail from a bird's-eye view map of Madison. |
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