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Ambulance Personnel Loading Person into International Ambulance

Date: 03 23 1929
Description: City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on....
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Two Boys Sitting in a Tree

Date: 07 11 1930
Description: Paul Vilbrandt and Herbie Van Abel sitting in a tree, 1217 W Dayton Street, hoping to break the tree sitting record of Jimmie Clemons of Racine. They place...
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Family Posed in Street near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s...
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Corliss Post Office

Date: 1901
Description: Post office, with seven men and a boy standing in front. Corliss is now called Sturtevant.
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Third Street

Date: 1864
Description: View looking north up Third Street near Market Square. There are five boys and a horse in the middle of the road.
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Paper Drive

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap...
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Circus Performers Riding Circus Animals

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Description: Slightly elevated view of circus performers riding camels in the street in a parade.
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Family on Porch

Date: 1900
Description: The Dodge family standing on the front porch of their house on East Montello Street. Frank Dodge lost his right leg in an accident while working in the gra...
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Motorcycle Tour

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Description: Nine men are lined up along a curb sitting on their motorcycles. Men and boys are on the sidewalk behind them, wtih advertisements filling the wall behind ...
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Group Posing with Motorcycles and Cars

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Description: Eleven motorcyclists wearing sashes are standing in between two news service cars in front of the Milwaukee Journal building. Another row of men are...
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Street Car

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Description: Men and a boy pose near a man driving a mule-drawn street car. Caption reads: "Street Car. Matamoros, Mex."
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Traffic in Cabbage

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Description: A view of three men and a boy with two horse-drawn wagons full of cabbage, on a street in front of buildings. Caption reads: "Traffic in Cabbage. Hamburg, ...
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Newspaper Carriers Trip to Indianapolis Race

Date: 05 29 1952
Description: One hundred eighteen newspaper carrier boys ready to board four buses in front of the Madison Newspaper building on Carroll Street for a trip to Indianapol...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Cub Scout Pack 329 from Emerson School lines up on Doty Street for the Memorial Day parade around Madison's Capitol Square. Monona Tire Company on the corn...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 20 1952
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby starter, Glen (Pat) Holmes, watches as two racers go down the East Gorham Street hill in front of the crowd watching the race.
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The Frank H. Russell Glove Company

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Description: A boy and girl are leaning out from a window on the third floor of the Frank H. Russell Glove Company building. The structure was constructed in 1910.
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Lewis Arms on Easter

Date: 04 26 1943
Description: Lewis Arms poses with his sister and other children on Easter Day. Front from left to right are Nedra Arms (sister) and John Hall. From left to right behin...
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Lewis Arms and Helen Berry

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Description: Lewis Arms hugs Helen Berry playfully. He is wearing his Navy uniform.
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Family Bike Ride

Date: 2006
Description: Father and two children stopped at an intersection while on a bike ride.
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Girl at Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 28 2007
Description: A young girl dressed in red, white, and blue is watching the Memorial Day parade while holding an American flag and sitting in a chair on the sidewalk.

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