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State Street and Bascom Hill

Date: 1929
Description: View of State Street with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University Club, and Bascom Hill in the background. The street is lined with automobiles.
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602 Frances Street

Date: 1900
Description: Cyanotype image of 602 Frances Street, located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Frances and Langdon Streets. The house served as the Chi Psi ...
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Boy Scouts Honor Lincoln

Date: 02 11 1947
Description: Madison Boy Scouts and their leader pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday by placing a wreath at the foot of the statue on Bascom Hill. Dick Feldt...
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation building entrance at 504 Walnut Street.
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The Wisconsin Historical Society

Date: 01 28 1927
Description: View of the Langdon Street side of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. In the background is Science Hall.
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Judge Levi B. Vilas Residence

Date: 1940
Description: An exterior view of the Levi B. Vilas mansion at the corner of Henry and Langdon Streets. Built about 1850, it later became a fraternity house for Phi Gamm...
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Vilas Mansion

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Description: View from across Langdon Street looking toward the residence of Levi B. Vilas. Built in 1851, the house was later used by the Phi Gamma Delta and then Sig...
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University of Wisconsin Winter Carnival Ski Jumpers

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: Four ski "jumpers" are posed on a hill with Lake Mendota behind them. They are, from left to right: Allen Bushnell, Wally Alcumbrac, Bill Bradley, and Don ...
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Wisconsin Hoofers Winter Carnival

Date: 01 31 1951
Description: Members of the Kappa Gamma sorority team on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are pictured practicing for the broom hockey matches to be held as p...
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Alpha Chi Omega House Decorations

Date: 12 12 1958
Description: The front of the Alpha Chi Omega chapter house is decorated with a golden lyre Christmas decoration, put up as a surprise by the pledges. Pledges, left to ...

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