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Aerial View of Isthmus

Date: 1955
Description: An air view of Madison's downtown area with the Wisconsin State Capitol and new State Office Buildings.
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Gays Mills from Above

Date: 1950
Description: View from hill through two trees over a road with a guard fence, overlooking the town laid out along a main thoroughfare. The area is heavily forested, and...
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Polperro House

Date: 1955
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restoration the siding was...
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Law Park Parking Lot

Date: 10 03 1958
Description: Law Park parking lot along Lake Monona.
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Law Park Parking Lot

Date: 10 03 1958
Description: The Law Park parking lot, on the shore of Lake Monona.
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E.B. Fred Hall

Date: 1954
Description: E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A person is shoveling dirt in front of the bu...
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Apple Orchard along Road

Date: 05 26 1950
Description: Apple orchard in blossom on the side of a road. There are a number of cut stumps in the foreground. A house is in the background among trees, and a watchto...
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Loggia Doors at Taliesin

Date: 1957
Description: View from living room out towards the loggia doors leading out to a balcony at Taliesin, the summer home of Frank Lloyd Wright. A hill and trees are in the...
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Middleton Landscape

Date: 1954
Description: Landscape with corner of a small cemetery.
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Simpson's Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with harvested corn in corn shocks in the field. Tree-lined hills are in the background. Text on reverse of imag...
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Farm Near Mt. Horeb

Date: 1951
Description: View from slope towards a farm, with barn, silos, and farmhouse. Caption reads: "Mt. Horeb (Vicinity) Wis. Highway 92, c. 1951-1955."
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Capitol View from Van Vleck Hall

Date: 08 22 1962
Description: Looking up State Street towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from the top of Van Vleck Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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State Street

Date: 08 02 1961
Description: View down State Street from the Capitol Square towards Bascom Hill. Cars and pedestrians are along the street, which is lined with signs and businesses.
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Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill

Date: 06 02 1960
Description: View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill, with three women walking in the foreground. Cars are parked on State Street at the base of the hill. ...
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Bleak November

Date: 1950
Description: View from shoreline towards two men in a canoe near Birch Point on Little Elkhart Lake. The day is overcast. Around the point is another man in a boat, and...
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River View from Wyalusing State Park

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin River from Wyalusing State Park, framed by trees. There is a bridge over the river in the distance.
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Rural Scene

Date: 1950
Description: Rural scene of a cluster of farm buildings with a pond in the foreground. On the horizon, trees cover the hills.
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Wisconsin River Bluffs from Highway 80, West of Avoca

Date: 03 1953
Description: View across a prairie toward wooded hills. Caption reads: "Wisconsin River Valley. Bluffs as seen from Highway 80 west of Avoca, Wis."
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Highway 35

Date: 1950
Description: View of an automobile traveling north on Highway 35, near the Mississippi River. Railroad tracks run between the road and the river. In the background are ...
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Mullet River

Date: 1952
Description: A winter view of the Mullet River near Crystal Lake. In the background is a house on a rise.

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