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Hommel's Top Hat Restaurant

Date: 1949
Description: Exterior view of the restaurant, with electric signs in the parking lot and above the entrance. Text on reverse reads: "For delightful dining... come to Ho...
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Piper's Garden Cafeteria

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Description: Illustrated postcard view of Piper's Garden Cafeteria. Caption reads: "Piper's Garden Cafeteria, 120 East Mifflin Street, Madison, Wisconsin." Text on reve...
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The Tenderloin Inn

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Description: Illustrated postcard of exterior and interior views of the Tenderloin Inn, famous for beef tenderloin dinners. Caption reads: "The Tenderloin Inn, 2438 Uni...
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Jimmie's Spaghetti House

Date: 1948
Description: Two interior views of a restaurant and bar. Text on front reads: "Jimmie's Spaghetti House, 906 Regent Street, Madison, Wisconsin." and "A Swanky new sceni...
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House of Wisconsin Cheese

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Description: Exterior view of a cheese shop with a sculpture of a mouse eating cheese above the entrance located at 101 N. Hamilton Street. Cheese is on display in the ...
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Italian Village Restaurant

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Description: Two interior views of a restaurant decorated in the style of an Italian village, including an arched entrance with bell tower, lampposts, faux brick walls,...
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Welch's Embers

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Description: Exterior view of a restaurant once located at 3520 E. Washington Avenue. There is an electric sign with two unicorns in front. Columns frame the roofed ent...
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Night View at Keeley's Palace of Sweets

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of a sweet shop and soda fountain located at 112 State Street. In the foreground is a glass counter, and behind it on the left is the soda fo...
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The Hoffman House

Date: 1946
Description: Two views, one exterior, one interior. Located on E. Wilson Street. Text on front reads: "Wisconsin's Farmous Dinner Club, As Viewed from Beautiful Lake Mo...
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View of the City from the Picture Windows of Dee's Nob Hill

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Description: View of a dining room with a large picture window, with a view of the Madison skyline across Lake Monona. Located two miles southeast on Highways 12 and 18...
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Leo's Esquire Club

Date: 1945
Description: Exterior view of a supper club. A white, rectangular building with awnings over the windows, and bushes around the foundation. Caption reads: "Leo's Esquir...
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Downtowner Motor Inn

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Description: View across street towards a five-story hotel with a swimming pool. Located at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Broom Street. Text on back reads, i...
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Main Street, Park Hotel and St. Raphael's Church

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Park Hotel, located on the corner of South Carroll Street and West Main Street. The church is further down the block. There is a sign on the bu...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Park Hotel, located on the corner of South Carroll Street and West Main Street, with a sign for Drugs on the corner of the building. The hotel ...
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The Edgewater

Date: 1949
Description: Night view of the original Edgewater Hotel located on the corner of Langdon Street and Wisconsin Avenue on the south shore of Lake Mendota. Caption reads: ...
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Belmont Hotel, Tallest and Only Fireproof Hotel on Capitol Square

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Description: View from Capitol grounds towards the hotel on the corner of N. Pinckney Street and E. Mifflin Street. Caption reads: "Belmont Hotel,Madison, Wis. Tallest ...
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Holiday Inn

Date: 1966
Description: Color illustration of an aerial view of the Holiday Inn located at Hwy. I-90 at Hwys. 12 & 18. Caption reads: "Holiday Inn® #2, Madison, Wis."
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Sheraton Inn and Conference Center

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Description: Elevated view of the inn on John Nolen Drive. Lake Monona and the Madison skyline is in the background.
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Mansion Hill Inn

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Description: Exterior view of the Mansion Hill Inn located at 424 N. Pinckney Street. Text on reverse reads: "Mansion Hill Inn. An opulent small hotel in the European t...
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Hotel Loraine

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Description: Color illustration of the hotel on the corner of West Washington Avenue and Fairchild Street. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. Caption Rea...

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