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| Date: | 06 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokes... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 100 block of State Street. Businesses include: Brathaus, The Perfume Shop, Lou's Tobacco Bar, Pattie Wago... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: optometrist (closed), Neff's Beauty Salon, Wisconsin Blue ... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Partial composite panoramic view of the north side of the 700 block of State Street. From the left is The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Library Ma... |
| Date: | 05 18 1960 |
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| Description: | A live oak tree is moved into "The Tree and the Poodle" restaurant and bar on State Street next to the Orpheum Theatre in Madison. The McDonald Tree Expert... |
| Date: | 02 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Explorer Scouts climbing aboard an Air Force truck for a weekend of emergency duty training near Devils Lake. The staged search for Truax Field air... |
| Date: | 05 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Breaking ground for the new Christ Presbyterian Church are John Wimberly, son of the pastor, and Miss Minnie Winifred Hastings, 420 S. Brooks Street, a lon... |
| Date: | 05 04 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior northeast view of Madison's newly built Lake View School on North Sherman Avenue. It will house 14 classrooms, two kindergartens, an all-purpose r... |
| Date: | 07 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A 11-man "floating" truck inspection crew checks trucks for equipment and weight violations. Too much weight was suspected on this semi-trailer but a final... |
| Date: | 07 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A 11-man crew and their "floating" truck inspection station check trucks for equipment and weight violations. An inspector spotted several equipment defect... |
| Date: | 07 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A 11-man crew and their "floating" inspection station check trucks for equipment and weight violations. This inspector checks a truck for proper lights. |
| Date: | 08 09 1961 |
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| Description: | Construction of the University of Wisconsin's new Extension building on Lake Street between University Avenue and State Street. |
| Date: | 08 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Construction of an addition to the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building at 17 S. Fairchild St. The addition provides for a fourth floor on the older rear porti... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Police shown busy at the site of one of many crashes during a heavy rain. The driver of this car was injured when a trucker misjudged the distance during t... |
| Date: | 11 21 1961 |
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| Description: | "Sidewalk superintendent's" view of the excavation for the new Park Motor Inn on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 12 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Col. John Roach, deputy state adjutant general, riding a motor scooter similar to the one being presented to his son, Capt. Pat Roach with the 32nd Divisio... |
| Date: | 02 06 1963 |
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| Description: | $25,000 estimated damage was caused when a semi-trailer loaded with Mercedes-Benz engines crashed into a railroad viaduct on Troy Drive near School Road. T... |
| Date: | 05 23 1963 |
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| Description: | The 104-year old Vilas Mansion at 12 Gilman Street is demolished to make way for the new National Guardian Life Insurance Co. building. The house was built... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Man and woman in costume (he is in the driver's seat and she is standing) beside an "antique" truck. On the side is a sign (not visible) that reads "Miami ... |
| Date: | 12 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Mendota State Hospital and Catholic Charities benefited from a trade-in sale at Carmen's Coat Store. Carmen's gave area women a discount on new coats, rang... |
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