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La Follette Campaign Train

Date: 1900
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr. with a group on his special campaign train. From left to right they are Alfred T. Rogers, La Follette's law partner; Mr. and Mrs...
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Garfield Street Accident Scene

Date: 02 07
Description: Accident scene between truck driven by Clyde Holmes and Donald Marking, age eight, who was struck and killed while sledding. View shows the alley between 1...
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Meggett Building on Barstow

Date: 1884
Description: Stereograph of three-story brick building on a dirt road.
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Barstow Street and the Meggett Building

Date: 1884
Description: Stereograph view with the Meggett building on the right hand side, and another building along the left hand side. A church's steeple is visible behind the ...
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International Engine Advertising Proof

Date: 11 1950
Description: Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a color illustration of a lawyer "questioning" an Internat...
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Emerson Ela at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Emerson Ela, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railro...
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San W. Orr at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: San W. Orr, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroa...
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View of Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: A view of a broad street lined with businesses in brick buildings. Horse-drawn carts are parked along the street and pedestrians are visible as well. Signs...
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Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a wide city street. Horse-drawn carts are in the street and pedestrians crowd the sidewalks. Sign in window reads: "Law Offices of D.A. St...
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Street Scene

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Description: Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric lines hang over the street. Sign in window reads: "J.B. Thompson Lawyer."
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Western View Down Broadway Street

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Broadway Street business district, with electric lights and power lines overhead, and streetcar tracks. Text on bank building (far left) reads:...
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Bank of Baraboo

Date: 1920
Description: An imposing two-story structure on the corner of Oak Street and Third Avenue. Lawyers offices occupy the upstairs.
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Anna Mae Davis

Date: 1932
Description: Anna Mae Davis, a Madison attorney, economist, and perennial candidate for attorney general on the Wisconsin Socialist Party ticket. This portrait is from ...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down a city street from a colonnaded walkway. Automobiles park outside a store advertising drugs and soda, Wade Bros. Land Company, and Henry C. Roge...
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Main Street, Walla Walla, Washington

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Description: View down the main street of town featuring storefronts.
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Historical & Pictorial Map of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: This map of Beaver Dam pictorially shows the history of the town. The map was made for the 100th anniversary celebration of Beaver Dam in 1941. The map inc...
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State Bank, Lucien S. Hanks, President

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Description: The State Bank, on Pinckney St and E. Washington, was built in 1882 to replace the original bank built in 1852. Lucien S. Hanks was the president of the St...
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Supreme Court Justice Visit

Date: 09 15 1965
Description: Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Tom C. Clark, is greeted at the Madison airport by an old friend, Madison attorney George Schlotthaue...
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Greyhound Executive Inspection Tour

Date: 07 10 1957
Description: Four men seated at a table inside a customized Greyhound Scenicruiser bus. They are: Arthur Genet (center right), president of the Grayhound Corporation; M...
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Law Firm Secretary to be Queen at University of Notre Dame

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba...

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