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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot of Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The gymnasium annex in course of demolition. There ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Gymnasium annex undergoing demolition on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is on the left. Three men are working... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Gymnasium annex undergoing demolition near Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A man is working in the lower center of t... |
| Date: | 02 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
| Date: | 06 15 1949 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time adjudged the second most be... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The old YMCA building in the initial stage of demolition. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View from atop a building across Wisconsin Avenue of the Fuller Opera House during its demolition. |
| Date: | 06 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Carl Federman, foreman of the Allen Wrecking Company, standing on the truck being loaded with debris from the razing of the Democrat Printing Company build... |
| Date: | 08 04 1953 |
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| Description: | Children walking along the sidewalk near the Hoffman Feed Company building, 503 Regent Street, which is being torn down to widen the street at the intersec... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A crane lowers the flag pole from the third Wisconsin State Capitol as the first step in demolition of the dome. An iron eagle is perched atop the flag pol... |
| Date: | 07 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of horses and buggies lining the street in front of the Wisconsin State Journal building during its demolition. There are dark clouds in the ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1954 |
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| Description: | A member of Bashford Methodist Church, 15 North Seventh Street, tears down the house at 329 North Street where the new church will be located. Searl Cook i... |
| Date: | 09 04 1954 |
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| Description: | A member of Bashford Methodist Church, 15 North Seventh Street, tears down the house at 329 North Street where the new church will be located. Roscoe Biddi... |
| Date: | 09 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of Bashford Methodist Church, 15 North Seventh Street, tear down the house at 329 North Street where the new church will be located. Floyd Fairbank... |
| Date: | 09 04 1954 |
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| Description: | A member of Bashford Methodist Church, 15 North Seventh Street, tears down the house at 329 North Street where the new church will be located. Harold Bohms... |
| Date: | 06 08 1961 |
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| Description: | A lone workman is silhouetted in the rear of the old Park Hotel. A new hotel is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1962. |
| Date: | 07 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A view from West Main Street of the site of the oldest part of Park Hotel which workmen had just completed razing. The view, looking northwest, shows the s... |
| 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... |
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