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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of cars parked alongside businesses on Third Street. Bassett's Drugstore is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An early view of the Richard Ira Bong Memorial - a P-38, although not a plane that Bong himself flew. The plane was acquired from the Air Force by the loca... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Aztalan Museum after restoration. The building, originally a church with a steeple, was built in 1852. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front entrance to Wayland Hall, built in 1855, Wayland Junior College. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Looking West on Main Ave." View down center of commercial area, with automobiles moving down the street, and parked along the curbs. A U.S.... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | White church in the trees. The ground is covered with snow. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards the front and right sides of the church through some pine trees. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wheeler house with a car parked in front. The sign in front of the house reads: "Proposed location for the new YMCA building." The house ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wheeler house with a porte cochere in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | John Philbrick Webster House. Built in 1836, the building served as the federal land grant office and courthouse. The composer Joseph Philbrick Webster use... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | "Pioneer Military Road - 1835 - Fort Howard, Greenbay - To Fort Crawford, Prairie Du Chien - Erected by Col. C.R. Pier Circle - Ladies of C.A.R. 1931." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Monument commemorating the place where General Atkinson built a stockade when he and his troops fought Black Hawk. Caption reads: "Near this spot General A... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the high school with several walkways leading up to it. Caption reads: "'High School,' Ft. Atkinson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Madison isthmus looking north. Caption reads: "Madison Wisconsin — Between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard Hospital. Within a year after the United States troops landed on the west bank of the Fox River in August, 1816. Dr. Beaumont lived in this hou... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A Civil War cannon captured at the Battle of Shiloh, displayed at Camp Randall near the corner of Randall Street and Dayton Street. A fire station is visib... |
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