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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
| Date: | 04 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings in the 200 block of State Street, with the Orpheum Theatre as a focal point. The theatre marquee reads "New Orpheum." Next door ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Millard's Tavern, 504 East Wilson Street with Fauerbach CB beer sign and "Bobby Hodges radio & TV star, Every Friday Night." Also shows Marty's Sandwich Sh... |
| Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
| Date: | 09 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Exterior night view of the Nancee Hat Shop at 7 South Pinckney Street featuring hats, purses and an Art Deco entrance. |
| Date: | 11 25 1931 |
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| Description: | This building on the corner of Main Street (to the left) and King Street (to the right) was built for John J. Suhr and designed by John Nader. Here it hous... |
| Date: | 03 03 1932 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Belmont Hotel, located at the corner of North Pinckney Street and E. Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 08 18 1932 |
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| Description: | View of the Parkway Theatre marquee down West Mifflin Street, and a sign for the "RKO's Greater Show Season and Merchant's Greater Selling Season" on a lam... |
| Date: | 01 24 1936 |
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| Description: | The Orpheum Theatre canopy and sign at night on the 200 block of State Street. The Orpheum Theatre marquee notes: "Shep Fields" on stage, and "Kind Lady" o... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Capitol Theatre at night with sign and marquee, located at 209-211 State Street. On the left is the Fred W. Kruse Co., and on the righ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Mazomanie Village President Theodore R. King, seated at a roll top desk, dials the first telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin Telephone Compa... |
| Date: | 02 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Charles T. Davies, Mazomanie representative of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, receives the first dial telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 12 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Window display of Reynolds "miracle" ballpoint pen being sold for $12.50 at W.T. Grant Co., 19-21 South Pinckney Street. Milton Reynolds became the first A... |
| Date: | 11 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Calvert liquor sign and sporting goods displayed in the window of Badger Sporting Goods store, 418 State Street. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Southwest entrance steps to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co. |
| Date: | 01 28 1936 |
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| Description: | A man dressed as a cowboy is sitting and holding a guitar in front of a microphone in W.I.B.A. studios, 111 King Street, Room 28. |
| Date: | 12 27 1935 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards four men constructing the W.I.B.A. radio transmission tower. |
| Date: | 11 21 1935 |
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| Description: | Window display of Royal portable typewriters at the Stemp Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are... |
| Date: | 04 16 1935 |
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| Description: | A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital. |
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