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| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A rainy, nighttime view of the corner of Main and Carroll streets on the Capitol Square. The neon signs of the Prescription Pharmacy and the Park Hotel lig... |
| Date: | 12 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Postal workers sort parcels into bins during the Christmas holiday rush. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The original wing was in the moderne style by architect Lawrence Monberg and built for the Quisling family in 1... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The original wing was in the moderne style by architect Lawrence Monberg and built for the Quisling family in 19... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern Railway crossing on Monona Bay, the site of the old MX tower. |
| Date: | 10 03 1958 |
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| Description: | U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. A woman is walking on the sidewalk that surrounds the building. There is a water fountain (bubbler) in the right foregroun... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | People cross a State Street intersection in the rain. The College Barber Shop and a Steak House is on the other side of the street. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and an unidentified man are in Wright's studio at Taliesin, Wright's summer home, looking at drawings. Taliesin is located in ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Luncheon or dinner group at the Top Hat restaurant celebrating a birthday party for Joseph L. (“Roundy”) Coughlin, a local newspaper columnist. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from the top of King Street towards the Fess Hotel, with cars parked along the curb. There are three hotel signs: a large sign on the roof, a... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View from King Street towards the right side of the Fess Hotel. Automobiles are parked along the curb. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View towards the front right corner of the Fess Hotel, and the sign painted on the right side of the Fess Hotel that reads: "Fess Hotel, 75 Rooms 30 Baths ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the upper stories and the roof edge above the entrance to the Fess Hotel. There is a partial view of the sign above the entrance, and a wi... |
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