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Sumner's Drugstore

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of Sumner's Drugstore, which was established in 1855. From left to right are George "Jud" Stone, Edwin Sumner, and Bert B. Collyer.
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Construction Of Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1905
Description: Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square...
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Children at Brittingham Park

Date: 1905
Description: Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole.
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Streetcar Track Construction on Capitol Square

Date: 1905
Description: Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot...
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Langdon Street

Date: 1905
Description: Langdon Street and the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, including the Armory (Red Gym or Old Red).
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Hotel Madison

Date: 1905
Description: Hotel Madison, on the north corner of Capitol Square with a Madison Traction Company car in the foreground.
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Portrait of a Couple

Date: 1905
Description: Mary Goodrich Brown and Frank Green Brown at their home, 28 Langdon Street.
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Exterior of House at 28 Langdon Street

Date: 1905
Description: Rear exterior of the Frank Brown home, 28 Langdon Street.
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View of the Spooner Residence

Date: 1905
Description: A side view of the Philip Spooner residence, 133 West Wilson Street. The family is gathered on the front porch of the house. There is a fence along the sid...
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State Street Looking West

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol of State Street looking west, toward the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bascom Hall.
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View Across Monona Bay

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Monona Bay.
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South Hall

Date: 1905
Description: View across Bascom Hill of South Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Rustic Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: The rustic bridge on Lake Mendota Drive, over a ravine in Shorewood Hills. The sign on the left reads: "$5 FINE, For riding or driving over this bridge fas...
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the businesses on the east side of North Pinckney Street, including The Fair, The Madison School of Music, and August Scheibel. In the for...
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of horses and buggies traveling on North Pinckney Street. The water tower rises behind the commercial buildings on the east side of the stree...
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State Street

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from the roof of the Wisconsin State Capitol looking west along State Street to Bascom Hall (with dome). The State Historical Society Buildin...
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Swimmers

Date: 1905
Description: Four boys skinny dip in Lake Mendota.
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Lake Monona Dock

Date: 1905
Description: The lake steamer "Alice" approaches the Madison dock on Lake Monona. Two boys wearing caps stand at the end of the pier. At the time of this photograph, t...
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Lake Monona Dock

Date: 1905
Description: Forest Middleton, right, and a companion sit on the retaining wall along the north shore of Lake Monona near the steamboat dock. Two boats and the boathous...

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