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Razing of Manchester's Department Store

Date: 06 1985
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 ...
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Razing of Manchester's Department Store

Date: 06 1985
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 ...
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Razing of Manchester's Department Store

Date: 06 1985
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...
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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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Demolition At "30 on the Square" Site

Date: 12 16 1964
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...
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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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Construction

Date: 09 2013
Description: A skid steer loader is in the foreground at a demolition site, with a construction worker standing on the left surveying the site. Another construction wor...
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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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Junkyard in DeKalb

Date: 1993
Description: Slightly elevated view of cars, vans, and trucks laying in a heap on top of each other, with a light cover of snow over them. A crane rises above the pile....
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Sigma Chi Fraternity House Demolition

Date: 04 23 1964
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...
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North Western Railroad Concrete Coal Chute Demolished

Date: 08 02 1957
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...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
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...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
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...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
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 ...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
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...

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