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Painters on Safway Steel Scaffolds

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: Two painters, shown on a Company scaffold from Safway Steel Scaffolds, at Villa Maria, 615 Howard Place. Safway Steel Scaffolds Company, offices at 940 Wil...
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Servisoft Company Truck

Date: 05 02 1946
Description: A truck for Servisoft Company, 555 West Mifflin Street. Advertisement on side of truck says "SERViSOFT, Enjoy Soft Water, the Modern Way."
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Badger Bus Line

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: Lorraine Thelen shown boarding one of the "fast express" buses operating between Madison and Milwaukee by Badger Coaches, Inc. The driver shown is Bill Bes...
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Badger Bus Line

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: Henry Murphy washing the Badger Bus Line, Inc. coach that he drives between Madison and Milwaukee.
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New Aluminum Canoes

Date: 06 29 1946
Description: A truckload of twenty-eight aluminum canoes in front of Madison Marine Service, 2102 Atwood Avenue. They were transported from Long Island, New York. The B...
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Bob Cooper Glass Company Building

Date: 06 29 1946
Description: Bob Cooper Glass Company building, 755 East Washington Avenue. There is a large tank in the background.
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Madison Armature Part Company

Date: 07 18 1946
Description: The Madison Armature Part Company building (formerly the Wisconsin National Guard Armory), 17 Market Place. Photograph is taken from 101 North Blount Stree...
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Swimming Meet

Date: 07 03 1946
Description: View from B.B. Clarke beach of swimmers on a raft in Lake Monona ready to start a swimming race with people in the foreground watching from the shore. Race...
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Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: Lieutenant General Eaker at the Madison airport in front of a B-17 bomber. He is shown with State Representative K. Henry (R-Jefferson) and welcoming commi...
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Stoddard Monroe Street Apartments

Date: 08 16 1946
Description: Two new apartment buildings recently completed by builder Neal H. Stoddard, in the 2900 block of Monroe Street. The laying of sod and other landscaping was...
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Greyhound Bus Accident Scene

Date: 08 17 1946
Description: Skid-path of the Greyhound bus that crashed on Highway 12 about 2 miles east of Madison. The bus left the highway, plunged 200 feet along a ditch, hit a d...
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Greyhound Bus Accident Scene

Date: 08 17 1946
Description: Several bystanders are observing the damage to a Greyhound bus turned over on its side as the result of an accident on Highway 12 about 2 miles east of Mad...
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Central Wisconsin Food Stores Warehouse

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: New Central Wisconsin Co-operative Food Stores Inc. warehouse, 112 North Lake Street.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Levy

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Levy, wearing sandwich boards stating "We Had a Foxhole in Germany, Now Sidewalks, USA. Vet and Wife Need 4 Walls & Roof" and "After Se...
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Cab-Bus Collision

Date: 08 26 1946
Description: Overturned taxicab, after collision with a city bus at the corner of Regent and Mills Street, injuring four people. Also shows a crowd of people looking on...
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Madison Street Scene

Date: 10 1946
Description: Street scene showing cars parked at parking meters on South Carroll Street on Capitol Square.
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Box of Piston Rings

Date: 09 1946
Description: Box of Wausau Motor Parts Company piston rings, taken for Brock Engraving Company.
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Roundy Coughlin and Two Men in Motorboat

Date: 10 10 1946
Description: Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin, sports writer for the "Wisconsin State Journal," and two other men in a Larson Falls Flyer motorboat on a lake.
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Rocket Oil Company Fuel Storage Tanks

Date: 10 10 1946
Description: Rocket Oil Company fuel storage tanks at the bulk plant at 204 South Paterson Street. In the foreground is a man on a modern Rocket Oil company truck fill...
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view of Pinckney Street, looking northeast from the Wisconsin State Capital. On the right is East Washington Avenue. On the left is the Belmont Ho...

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