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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, looking northeast. The Park Hotel on the corner of W. Main Street and S. Carroll Street, is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol building and surrounding Madison area. Lake Monona is in the background. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Tonyawatha Spring Hotel from a descriptive brochure. The hotel opened in 1879 and was destroyed by fire on July 31, 1895. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Clara Bewick Colby in a long, black skirt, holding a book. |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Front of dinner menu for the "North American" for the season. Gives rates for cruises on the "North American" or "South American" between Chicago, Illinois... |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva... |
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| Description: | Cover from songbook used on the "S.S. North American." Back cover advertises the sailings of the "North American" and "South American." Includes pic... |
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| Description: | Pages 1-2 of the Songbook for the "S.S. North American" includes an index and the lyrics for 2 songs. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | International truck delivering Orange Crush soda to a concession stand at the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. The truck was owned by Citrus Fruit Juic... |
| Date: | 06 05 1971 |
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| Description: | A young Cub Scout member of Pack 86 from Trinity Presbyterian Church hands newspapers he saved to an employee of Shapiro Paper and Metal Co. The task was p... |
| Date: | 12 01 1915 |
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| Description: | Lindsey Reese of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department delivering a lecture on livestock and agriculture to a crowd of people and a d... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Ferris wheel and midway at the Columbian Exposition, viewed from Hotel Epworth. |
| Date: | 06 27 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragist Mrs. Katherine McCullough speaking to a gathering in front of the store and post office run by Mrs. W. Bunda in Sister Bay. |
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| Description: | Unidentified group of tourists posing standing in Cold Water Canyon. There is a man in the background on the left with a camera. |
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| Description: | Bennett Studio, 200 block of Broadway, Kilbourn, Wisconsin. Post office next door. |
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