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| Date: | 11 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Demolition of part of the Madison General hospital building to make way for the new psychiatric-rehabilitation wing. |
| 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: | 11 05 1963 |
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| Description: | A bulldozer demolishing St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 10 South Park Street as part of the Triangle area urban renewal project. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across Mifflin Street, towards Madison City Hall as it is being demolished. On the street women are walking around the construction to get to the side... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. The Concourse Hotel is in the ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View from Wisconsin Avenue towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. A man wearing a hardhat ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View from East Mifflin Street and the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue towards Manchester's Department Store. The razing of the building is about one fourt... |
| Date: | 12 01 1964 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 16 1964 |
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| Description: | View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki... |
| Date: | 07 27 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Demolition of the Sigma Chi Fraternity House on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The house was torn down to make way for the new Alumni House an... |
| Date: | 08 02 1957 |
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| Description: | North Western Railroad employees demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard, at Commercial and Sherman Avenues, on their second attemp... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two men are watching from a shady spot in Capitol Park as buildings are being demolished to make way for a J.C. Penney store. The photograph was taken with... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | An observer leans on a parking meter on Monona Avenue to watch the demolition of the Madison Theater to make way for a new building to house a J.C. Penney ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two men watching the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater from the Capitol grounds in Madison. The photograph was taken with a new telephoto... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two busy Madison lawyers pause to watch the demolition of buildings on Madison's Capitol Square to be replaced with a new building to house a J. C. Penney ... |
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