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Billboard at Bascom Hill

Date: 1909
Description: A billboard displays events at the foot of Bascom Hill from the bottom east side on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Bascom Hall with dome (form...
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Aerial View of Cable

Date: 1936
Description: Aerial view of Cable, in northern Wisconsin. Text at foot reads: "Airplane View of Cable, Wis. 244."
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Springhill Cottages "At the Dells"

Date: 1924
Description: The main building at Springhill Cottages, with a screened-in porch and a large billboard in front advertising cottages and rooms with private baths.
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Kiekhofer Wall

Date: 04 29 1946
Description: One-hundred-twenty-foot-long red brick wall along sidewalk in the 600 block of Langdon Street about to be torn down for the Hillel Center. The wall, named ...
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Panorama of Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Panoramic elevated view to the east from the Capitol Square.
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Suburban Neighbors

Date: 06 1972
Description: View along the 2700 block of Fish Hatchery Road, with billboard advertising residential lots in Tower Hill Park (a development by Llyman McKee and William ...
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Regent and Orchard Streets

Date: 1934
Description: Regent and Orchard Streets looking east.
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Drive-In Theater

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Description: Entrance to outdoor drive-in theater. The billboard reads: "Mid City Outdoor." There is a white picket fence blocking the driveway. In the background are l...
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Bauer's Restaurant

Date: 06 1960
Description: "Bauer's Restaurant in Campbellsport was a landmark in the area. The owner, 'Mush' Bauer, was an extremely overweight man."
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Astor House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the Astor house.
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County Trunk F

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of bridge along County Trunk F. There is an automobile parked on the other side of the bridge. Houses and tree-lined hills are in the backgr...
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Waiting for Bass Run

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of people in a park along the shoreline waiting for the White Bass run.
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Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets

Date: 1930
Description: Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets, with early houses, car and barn.
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The Court

Date: 1935
Description: View from above of spectators watching men play doubles tennis at a downtown tennis court. There is a water tower in the background.
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300 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E...
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Malt House

Date: 1930
Description: View across lawn towards the Malt House at 1603 Sherman Avenue. To the right of the Malt House is the Cafferty Distributing Company, wholesalers for Schlit...
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Automatic Heating and Air Conditioning Truck

Date: 12 06 1949
Description: A fuel oil truck parks in front of a building labeled "General Heating" at 506 University Avenue.
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Hotel Ogden

Date: 1885
Description: Exterior view of the front of the Hotel Ogden located at 149 East Wilson Street. Three men wearing suits are relaxing on the porch, with two men sitting on...
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Pennco Station

Date: 07 24 1934
Description: Pennsylvania oil company gas station at the corner of 2 North Park and Regent Streets in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Lewis Arms with a Guitar

Date: 1950
Description: Lewis Arms strums a guitar, with one foot resting on the bumper of a car at 629 Milton Street.

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