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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 07 23 1959 |
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| Description: | "Lights On" sign at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theatre. |
| Date: | 07 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the ticket booth at the Starlite Theatre, a drive-in movie theatre. |
| Date: | 07 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Daylight view of the movie screen at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theater. |
| Date: | 09 25 1956 |
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| Description: | A man and two women with piles of paper tickets being sorted for the upcoming theater season at the Fred Miller theater. |
| 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: | 1951 |
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| Description: | The layout plan for the Lambertville Music Circus with elevations of stage and pit. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View looking west down Mifflin Street showing the old City Hall, the Parkway Theater, and Manchesters Department Store. Automobiles are parked at an angle ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Dance and singing performance during a festival at Taliesin West. The theater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built by the Fellowship. Taliesin West... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Peninsula Player's Play House, "Theater in a Garden," which opened in 1957. The sides of the theater are open to the outdoors. |
| Date: | 11 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Catholic War Veterans talent contest contestants in costume. |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A crane is used in the demolition of City Hall on the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Eastwood Theater tower, situated over the front entrance. |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman rides in a car in a parade on the Capitol Square. He came for a 5 1/2 hour visit, gave a "peace" address to the nation from the U... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Pinckney Street, near the corner of East Washington Avenue. To the left is a bank building, in the center a shoe store, and on the right a theatre. |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol balcony. At the lower left, the demolition of old City Hall is in progress, which began ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Looking northwest down Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. Mifflin Street is visible in the foreground, while in the center of the phot... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View from atop a building across Wisconsin Avenue of the Fuller Opera House during its demolition. |
| Date: | 05 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Youth Theater board of governors are shown holding a sign advertising their summer program. Pictured left to right are Charlene Scha... |
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