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Triangle Tourist Park on Highway US-18/US-12/WI-73

Date: 1928
Description: Exterior view of gas station/restaurant outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers Red Crown brand gasoline, Coney Island Red Hots, hot co...
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park US-18

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view from road of gas station and "dine and dance" restaurant on Highway US-18/US-12, outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers ...
Print

E.L. Burwell Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of E.L. Burrell, mill and factory sale agent in Madison, Wisconsin, with a center halftone image of Wisconsin Dells with a drawn-in group of men...
Photograph

St. Mary's Student Nurse Tour

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: Descending the steps from the Wisconsin State Capitol building are five new St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing students on a tour of Madison. Left to ri...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Christine and Bill Schuldt admiring posters and relics of circuses founded in Wisconsin at an exhibit in the State Historical Society Museum. The photograp...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Pat, 8, and Vicki Rohan, 14, examine some of the equipment in the press room of Madison Newspapers, Inc. The photograph was taken for part of an article su...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Six year old twins Billy and Martha Haygood lying in the grass next to a pond, looking down at trout fingerlings swimming at the fish hatchery located on F...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Four children stand on the observation deck watching planes at the Madison Municipal airport. The children include, from left to right: Carol, 3, Christine...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Judith 7, and Barbara, 4, daughters of Dr. and Mrs Richard MacLean of Sheridan, Wyoming, watching cows being milked in the milking parlor at the Bowman Dai...
Map or Atlas

Visitors' Guide Map of Madison : "The Four-Lake City of Year-Round Play" Showing Points of Interest, Summer and Winter

Date: 1927
Description: Map reads: "Now You Can Visualize Madison". Includes indexes, with points marked 1-98 and a key. Text and illustrations on verso include hotels and seasona...
Photograph

Camp Indianola

Date: 1929
Description: A group of young boys with their male camp counselors are sitting and standing around the split-rail fence. There is a log cabin and a cornfield in the bac...
Postcard

The Surprise Room Opened in 1957 — Cave of the Mounds

Date: 
Description: Stalactite-rich rooms of the Cave of the Mounds.
Postcard

The Pendulum — Cave of the Mounds

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a stalactite connected to stalagmites on the floor. Smaller stalactites surround it.
Map or Atlas

Visit Madison Wisconsin the Capital of Vacationland

Date: 1950
Description: This map of Madison is also a brochure of activities for vacationers in the area. The map includes indexes and some points of interest are shown pictoriall...
Map or Atlas

City Map of Madison Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: This map features a legend of highways, railroads, parks, and service stations. The cover and inside of the map features pictures of attractions in Madison...
Map or Atlas

Plan Now to See Madison, The Four Lake City, Wisconsin : The City Built on an Isthmus

Date: 1924
Description: Intended for tourists, this brochure, titled: "Plan Now to See Madison, The Four Lake City: "The City Built on an Isthmus," features a map of Madison and s...
Photograph

Inside Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1969
Description: A girl is standing high up among a group of stalagmites in the Cave of the Mounds. Another girl is leaning against a railing on the left.
Photograph

Hall of Travertine, Cave of the Mounds

Date: 
Description: View of a large interior cave room. There is a wooden bridge and a lighting fixture. Caption reads: "Hall of Travertine, a single room 350 feet long with t...
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 06 1939
Description: Elevated view of the tourist attraction Little Norway, situated in an idyllic valley, with the stave church in the center and a small house at right. There...
Photograph

Launch of "This is Wisconsin" Booklet-State Map Surrounded by Wisconsin Grown Foods

Date: 03 29 1954
Description: Food from every food-producing county in the state and seventy-one candles - one for each county - frames a 25-foot long map of Wisconsin at the preview ev...

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