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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color guards marching past the Wisconsin State Capitol carrying flags as a crowd looks on. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol building and surrounding Madison area. Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view looking west at the front of the Oscar Mayer meat processing plant with a sign on the building which reads "Meat serves everybody". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child, Frank Hill, walking the picket line at a strike with an older man. The adult's sign reads: "Construction Workers organize for hours, wages a... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman and young girl review the latest fashion merchandise in a retail window display. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Frank Lloyd-Wright-dsigned Unitarian Church under construction and the Veteran's Administration Hospital, also under construction, to th... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Our Saviour Lutheran Church at 1 South Hancock Street, on the corner of Hancock Street and East Washington Avenue. |
| 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: | Exterior view of Bethel Lutheran Church at 312 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bethel Lutheran Church parish house and Sunday School, 10 West Johnson Street. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Herman Loftsgordon family residence at 2429 Center Avenue, with daughter Hazel on the steps. Loftsgordon served as chairman of Anchor Savings and Loan ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Burial plot at Forest Hill Cemetery, where 140 Confederate prisoners of war were interred after perishing at Camp Randall military prison during the spring... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The statue of Colonel Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863), commander of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War, as it stands in front o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color view of the State Street and Lake Street intersection, with the Co-op book store, the Rennebohm Drug Store and the Wisconsin State Capitol at the end... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was er... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Hamacher Hotel and Tavern, 302-306 West Mifflin Street, at the intersection of North Henry Street. Its demolition between 1955 and 195... |
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