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Vilas Mansion Demolished for Construction of National Guardian Life Insurance Co. Building

Date: 05 23 1963
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...
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James Dresser Dome House

Date: 11 20 1953
Description: Exterior view of the James Dresser dome home at 5126 Tomahawk Trail, Madison, WI. The house is also known as the Thomas A. and Stacy H. Littrell House, th...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison neighborhood street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal. One house on this paper route has a front yard enclos...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison residential street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal on their paper route.
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Row of two-story houses along the newspaper route in a Madison neighborhood, where the carriers throw their papers to the doorstep.
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: Brakeman R.D. DeRoche pressing the button to deactivate the warning lights as the Illinois Central train passes the intersection with Monroe and Regent Str...
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Railroad Crossing Safety Precautions at Monroe and Regent Streets

Date: 07 1955
Description: After passing the intersection of Monroe and Regent Streets, the brakeman gets back on the train for the trip to Freeport on the Illinois Central Railroad.
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Clothing Fashions for High School & College Coeds

Date: 08 1955
Description: Clothing outfits available at Madison stores being modeled by young women: Walking on a sidewalk, Margaret McDowell is wearing a suit of a avocado green tw...
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Shirley Abrahamson

Date: 07 26 1962
Description: Attorney, Shirley Abrahamson, walking her Irish Setters, Brisco and Betsy-B near her Fish Hatchery Road home. She is a member of the law firm of LaFollette...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 09 03 1957
Description: Newspaper boy Mathew Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, placing a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal behind a screen door of a private residence.
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Mathew Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, checks-in with his Wisconsin State Journal district manager Clint Vondoll, who is sitting ...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Sidney Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, collecting money for the delivery subscription of the Wisconsin State Journal from custome...
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Activities at the Neighborhood House

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: A favorite activity for the 11- and 12-year-old-girls group at the Neighborhood House at 768 West Washington Avenue is basket weaving. Mrs. Wendall V. Har...
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City Leaf Vacuum Cleaner

Date: 10 30 1958
Description: Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Meredeth Niemczyk, a crossing guard for Madison Lutheran school, blows a whistle to stop traffic at the corner of Jenifer and Brearly streets. Madison's 49...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk, standing at the corner of Jenifer and Brearly streets, facing north, spreads her arms and displays a hand held stop sign ...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown adjusting the head scarf of Diane Beale.
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Mrs. Niemczyk, wearing a safety sash, is shown conferring with a policeman. The original caption reads that he is "supervisor of the 49 school crossing gua...

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