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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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Brandmeyer's Barber Shop

Date: 03 1930
Description: Two barbers standing and posing on the sidewalk in front of the James J. Brandmeyer Barber Shop at 404 W. Lakeside Street. A sign in the window advertises ...
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Demolition of St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Date: 11 05 1963
Description: A bulldozer demolishing St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 10 South Park Street as part of the Triangle area urban renewal project.
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Home Demolition on West Washington Avenue

Date: 12 01 1964
Description: A bulldozer demolishing five homes in the four hundred block of West Washington Avenue to make room for a six-story office building to be the Wisconsin hea...
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Firemen's Parade

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of motorized fire trucks, horse-drawn fire trucks, automobiles and water wagons gathered on East Washington Avenue. All the vehicles are acco...
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Welfare Home Moves

Date: 12 12 1964
Description: Four U.W. Greeks unloading a bed frame from a truck. The Department of Public Welfare Group Home (for women) moved from 404 W. Washington Avenue to 305 N. ...
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Bernice Lindsay Addresses Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Bernice Lindsay is on a podium. She is wearing a coat and a hat. A man is filming her speech. On the ground is the street sign in her honor. Part of the N ...
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Mailman John L. Smith

Date: 07 29 1965
Description: John L. Smith standing on a Madison sidewalk with letters in his hand and his mail cart beside him. He is featured in a newspaper article about his busy li...
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Making Room for the New Elvehjem Art Center

Date: 07 27 1965
Description: Workers and equipment are shown tearing down old student dwellings to make room for the Elvehjem Art Center complex. It is surrounded by Park Street, Unive...
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Mann's Restaurant

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Description: James R. Mann, and Eleanor Mann, proprietors of Mann's restaurant, standing in front of their storefront, with the clerk, Joe Haberlie, and an unknown woma...
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Sid with Toonerville in Winter

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Description: Sid standing in his snowy backyard looking at his wooden trolley, Toonerville, which has been covered with plastic for the winter. Some of Sid's sculptures...
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Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

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Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
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Sid Boyum Working on Painting

Date: 1962
Description: Sid Boyum, standing in his backyard, painting a landscape depicting Little Fork River in northwest Minnesota.
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Future Site of the State Archives Preservation Facility

Date: 11 11 2015
Description: Front entrance to the State of Wisconsin's Central Services Building, located at 201 S. Dickinson Street. The building contained Transportation Services an...
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Future Site of the State Archives Preservation Facility

Date: 11 11 2015
Description: View from the south side of the State of Wisconsin's Central Services Building, located at 201 S. Dickinson Street. The building contained Transportation S...
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Future Site of the State Archives Preservation Facility

Date: 11 11 2015
Description: View from the south side of the State of Wisconsin's Central Services Building, located at 201 S. Dickinson Street. The building contained Transportation S...
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Future Site of the State Archives Preservation Facility

Date: 11 11 2015
Description: View over fence towards the south side of the State of Wisconsin's Central Services Building, located at 201 S. Dickinson Street. The building contained Tr...
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Future Site of the State Archives Preservation Facility

Date: 11 11 2015
Description: View from the north side of the State of Wisconsin's Central Services Building, located at 201 S. Dickinson Street. The building contained Transportation S...
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Future Site of the State Archives Preservation Facility

Date: 11 11 2015
Description: View from the north side, looking east, of the State of Wisconsin's Central Services Building, located at 201 S. Dickinson Street. The building contained T...
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As Things Appear at the Bakery

Date: 04 2014
Description: A man and a woman are standing behind the counter at Lane's Bakery. The glass display case has three rows of baked goods. There are three tall movable rack...

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