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Residing House 412 W. Mifflin Street

Date: 10 22 1934
Description: View from street of the workers re-siding a house at 412 W. Mifflin Street. An automobile is parked in front of the garage on the left, and there is a neig...
Photograph

North Pinckney Street and East Washington Avenue

Date: 
Description: North Pinckney Street and East Washington Avenue from the Capitol roof. The American House, which burned down in 1868, is one of the businesses shown in th...
Drawing

American House

Date: 1860
Description: Engraving of the American House at 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868.
Photograph

American House or Flom Hotel

Date: 1870
Description: The Flom Hotel or American House, 323 East Main Street, at the corner of South Hancock Street. The Vilas House, whose conveyance stands in front, was a riv...
Photograph

International Motor Coach - Florida Blue Line

Date: 12 11 1924
Description: An International bus, model 52 or model 53, parked in front of a two-story wood frame building, possibly a boarding house. The side of the coach has "Flori...
Photograph

Modern Rooms — E.F. Lueth

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi...
Photograph

Fourth Avenue

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Description: View down Fourth Avenue, lined with a row of high Victorian style rooming houses.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1913
Description: View down sidewalk towards a sign that says "... and Lodging England's" for a boarding house is on the extreme left. Next to the sign is a building with a ...
Photograph

Patch Grove Main Street

Date: 1912
Description: View down Main Street. On the left is a barn covered with circus broadsides. Across the street is a building with a storefront and awning, and a sign that ...
Postcard

Main Street Big Falls

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Description: Photographic postcard view down center of unpaved street in the central business district of a rural community. On the left is a general store, and on the ...
Photograph

"Fields" "The Maples"

Date: 1926
Description: View from street of a large brick house with an arched entrance and wrap-around columned porch. There are benches on the lawn along the side of the house o...
Photograph

Winnes Inn — Modern Rooms

Date: 1929
Description: View across street towards three women standing on the front steps of Winnes Inn, a converted dwelling in a residential neighborhood.
Photograph

Bauer's Rooms — 814 Elm St.

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of a house in a residential neighborhood with rooms available for tourists.
Photograph

Coe's Porches — 414 Broadway

Date: 1931
Description: View from street towards Coe's Porches, a place with sleeping porches and rooms for tourists. A group of people are standing in the front lawn and an autom...
Photograph

Mrs. Sam T. Cummings — Member of NTA — Free Garage

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of a couple is sitting on the front stoop of a house which has rooms for tourists. A lawn swing and planters are on the lawn. There is a l...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map Detail of Langdon Street

Date: 1908
Description: A detail of a Madison Sanborn map that includes the University of Wisconsin Boat House, UW Gymnasium & Armory (The Red Gym), fraternity houses, and the YMC...
Photograph

Horse and Buggy in front of Spaulding Boarding House

Date: 
Description: View down unpaved street towards a man posing sitting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of tall building on the left. The building is identified as the Spaul...
Photograph

Two Men in a Wagon

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Description: Outdoor view of two men posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a single horse on an unpaved road. The horse's head is turned sharply to the right. The buildin...
Photograph

Hubert Schmitz Boarding House, Hubert Schmitz Building, and Nicholas Weber Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards three buildings. The building on the far left is historically the Hubert Schmitz Boarding House, and is now Ethel Wood's ...

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