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Madison Snowstorm
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View of the Capitol Square during the year's record snowstorm, taken from under the canopy of the Park Hotel showing the corner of South Carroll and West Main Street.
March 2, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Madison Snowstorm
March 2, 1948
A winter scene of the Capitol Square during the year's record snowstorm. Pictured are Mrs. Francis (Mayme) Harrison, 304 West Main Street, with her two children, Donna Mae and Dean. The Wisconsin ...
Madison Snowstorm
January 30, 1947
Winter scene with cars in a parking lot at West Washington Avenue and Fairchild Street the morning after a snowstorm, Madison, Wisconsin.
Mobile Civil Defense Test
October 31, 1951
Elevated view of a parade of vehicles for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison approaching along South Carroll Street and turning onto West Main Street at the Capitol S...
Madison Snowstorm
January 30, 1947
Winter scene with Dave Brown (left), and Bill Pedder shoveling out cars parked on South Carroll Street on the Capitol Square, charging $1.50 and up.
Wisconsin State Journal Building Fire
November 19, 1947
Elevated view of three fire trucks at a fire in the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115-23 South Carroll Street. Other buildings on the street, looking south, left to right, are 109 S. Carroll S...
Madison Street Scene
October 1946
Street scene showing cars parked at parking meters on South Carroll Street on Capitol Square.
