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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from Langdon Street of the University of Wisconsin YMCA on the shore of Lake Mendota. On the porch of the building is a large "Cafeteria" sign. Anothe... |
| Date: | 12 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the roof of the Park Hotel. Main Street businesses seen include, from the left: Western Union Telegraph Company at 21 West Main Street, ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the south side 200 block of State Street. A large sign announces the coming of a new Montgomery Ward's store on the site. Stores shown inc... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across West Gilman Street towards the Charles H. Hopper Building. The building has a sign for The Thesis Center on the ground floor, a center for typi... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across West Gorham Street, on the corner of State Street, towards the back side of Kirch Building. The ground floor contains Erehwon Mountain Supply. ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Facade of the three-story high school. There is an open cupola on the roof. |
| Date: | 01 18 1970 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, 118 Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). The bui... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across West Johnson Street towards a commercial building. The ground floor has a show window for Rentschler Floral Company. A sign above the second fl... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across North Fairchild Street towards the back side of the C.E. Buell Building. The building is three stories high and contains apartments, with a fir... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across East Washington towards Pyramid Realty. A car is parked outside of the building. To the right is a small parking lot, and to the left is an all... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | The G.A.R. Memorial Hall on Monona Avenue. It was later demolished to make way for a parking lot. |
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| Description: | The Kunzelmann-Esser Furniture Co. building at S. 9th and W. Mitchell Streets. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of exterior of Saint Joseph's Hospital. The three-story building has a cross on the roof over the entrance. |
| Date: | 06 26 1946 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the hotel. Caption in album reads: "Where I roomed 6-26 1946 while installing dial switchboard for Dairyland Milk Coop." |
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