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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street, looking eastward. A drugstore and the Stevens Point Journal offices are on the right. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking East, Steve... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a Main Street. A drugstore can be seen prominently on the left. Trees line the sidewalk on the right. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West, St... |
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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | St. Mary's Hospital soon after its completion in 1911. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Hospital." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of City Hospital, which became known as Madison General Hospital and is now Meriter Hospital. It was designed by Madison architects Louis W. Claude an... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Central High School, designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert and partially razed in 1986. Caption reads: "High School, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International... |
| Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the Steensland Bridge with a boat and passengers passing beneath. Caption reads: "Steensland Bridge, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two forest rangers are posing on horseback. Handwritten on front: "Forest Rangers at Trout Lake Station." |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Capitol Park and the replica of Centennial fountain installed in the park in 1878. The green paint is a change made in 1898. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe... |
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| Description: | Embossed souvenir postcard decorated with gold that depicts the third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared, 1883-1904. The gold dome was an entirely arti... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of one of the four Prairie du Chien stone gateways that stood at the four corner entrances to the Capitol Park. More elaborate gates topped with iron ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Postcard depicting the fire of February 26-27, 1904 that destroyed most of the second Wisconsin State Capitol. The smoke and flames have been dramatically ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This card which is postmarked 1912 shows the zinc statutes on the stone gateways near the sidewalk at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Ori... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down the main walk leading to Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, then Main Hall. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons. The memorial was built to honor Wisconsin Civil War soldiers and is located on the University of Wisconsi... |
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