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Franklin Street in Port Washington

Date: 1950
Description: View of the central business area on Franklin Street. On the right corner is the "Fish Shanty" Restaurant and on the left is the Rexall Drugstore.
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Madison Park Hotel & Prescription Pharmacy

Date: 1955
Description: View of downtown Madison's Park Hotel. The Prescription Pharmacy also occupies a portion of the ground floor.
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Iowa County Court House

Date: 1958
Description: Elevated view of the gardens and buildings of the Iowa County Court House.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Parish

Date: 1959
Description: Aerial view of the church (built in 1928), the rectory (built in 1876), the school (built in 1958), and the convent (built in 1941). Also includes a view ...
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Tallman House

Date: 1955
Description: View of the front and left side of the Tallman House from the front garden.
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Tallman House

Date: 1957
Description: View of the Tallman House from the street in the autumn.
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Railroad Grade

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's railroad grade two miles south of Weyerhaeuser over Soft Maple Creek, built about 1875-76.
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Dam on Soft Maple Creek

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
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Soft Maple Creek Dam

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
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Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 1956
Description: An interior view of the Grace Episcopal Church, showing the free-standing altar made of Kasota stone. The church was founded in 1838.
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A Daughter for Joe

Date: 1957
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and daughter Tierney. Her adoption was not completed at the time of the Senator's death on May 2, 1957.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Highlander

Date: 08 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library.
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Catherine Dorothy Wright Baxter and Anne Baxter at Taliesin West

Date: 05 1959
Description: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright with his granddaughter, actress Anne Baxter, and her mother, Wright's daughter from his first marriage, Catherine Dorothy Wrig...
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Main Lounge at the Wisconsin Center

Date: 1958
Description: Interior view of the green and gold room, which was the main lounge at the Wisconsin Center for adult education at 702 Langdon Street.
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M-40 Marine Corps Vehicle with Wrecker Body

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of an M-40 Marine Corps vehicle equipped with a wrecker body towing a searchlight truck up a sandy hill. Mountains are in the far backgrou...
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M-40 Truck on Hillside

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of an M-40 Marine Corps vehicle equipped with a wrecker body towing a searchlight truck up a hill in an area of brush. Mountains and pastu...
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M-41 and M-54 Cargo Vehicles

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of M-41 and M-54 cargo vehicles servicing and transporting 155-mm howitzers with 10-gun crews. The trucks belonged to the 73rd Armored Art...
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Model M-51 Dump Truck

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of a model M-51 dump truck depositing raw lime rock from a quarry into the back of a truck marked "U.S. Air Force." Another vehicle is in ...
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Military Construction Equipment Transport

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of men loading a piece of construction equipment onto a trailer attached to a Model M-52 truck-tractor. Other vehicles parked on a gravel ...
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Spreading Asphalt

Date: 1952
Description: View towards of men using an M-61 to spread asphalt at Wolters Air Force Base. A building, possibly a church or chapel, stands in the background along the ...

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