Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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Description: | A low-cost house built in Marlborough Heights on Madison's East Side by contractor C.J. "Cap" Goucher. The house is similar to 20 houses being constructed ... |
Date: | 10 02 1948 |
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Description: | Edmund Sternberg house at 4214 Drexel Avenue in Lake Edge Park. Mr. Sternberg quit his job to build the house himself. Mrs. (Violet Pinneke) Sternberg, who... |
Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | First floor of a two-story house that is in the middle of being constructed. Other duplexes and houses are visible in the background. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Large group of construction workers walking through neighborhood of houses that are in the middle of being constructed. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Men work to level the ground for foundations to be poured for homes. Exposed brick walls of partially constructed homes are on the left and right, and a di... |
Date: | 06 06 1950 |
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Description: | Advertising photograph for a housing contractor company called Space Inc. Pictured is a house at 3903 Nicholas Road built by Space Inc. contractor Ivan D. ... |
Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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Description: | Photograph of model home #3 constructed at 201 Harding Street by A.A. Elkind & Company, builders and developers, 1940 Winnebago Street. The image appeared ... |
Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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Description: | View of a model home constructed at 205 Harding Street by A.A. Elkind & Company, builders and developers. The image appeared in an advertisement for the co... |
Date: | 08 15 1950 |
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Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated, signs a proclamation that officially opens National Home Week in Wisconsin. With him at the signing, standing left to rig... |
Date: | 03 19 1952 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the home of builder Tom McGovern, his wife Ruth and their five daughters. The one-story residence at 25 Hiawatha Circle features pale yell... |
Date: | 07 23 1952 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don J. (Jean) Voegeli at 2805 Oxford Place in Shorewood Hills. The spacious one-story home features redwood sidin... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | View looking down a commercial street. Shops and cars in angled parking spaces line both sides of the paved street. A horse-drawn wagon is in the far dista... |
Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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Description: | Advertisement for an open house at a newly-built house at 4137 Council Crest, Nakoma. The house was built by Harold E. Bewick, building contractor, and adv... |
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Description: | Billhead of Adolph Green, contractor and builder in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a front view of a Queen Anne style Victorian house with a round tower, a tur... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Carter Ice & Fuel Company, suppliers of ice, fuel, and building products in Menomonie, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of a one-stor... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Central Roofing & Supply Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Roofing Jobbers and Contractors," with a three-quarter view of a house with a ... |
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Description: | Letterhead of Madison Mobile Homes, with a three-quarter view of a mobile home parked in a clearing near a wooded area on a shoreline, with the slogan "Liv... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | View down unpaved street. A group of men and boys congregate on the porch of a storefront. Two men and two children stand in the street. There is a windmil... |
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