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Girl Scouts at Loraine Hotel

Date: 12 12 1936
Description: Elevated view from balcony of large group of Girl Scouts in the dining room of the Loraine Hotel. Many of the girls are sitting on the floor in the front, ...
Photograph

New Tanks for Fauerbach Brewing Co.

Date: 04 17 1934
Description: View across street towards two new tanks being delivered by the Heil Co. of Milwaukee on a Heil Company truck. The truck is parked in front of the Fauerbac...
Photograph

U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 12 03 1928
Description: Interior view of empty Post Office work room looking toward Wilson Street.
Photograph

U.S. Post Office Sorting Room

Date: 03 28 1929
Description: Men working in the U.S. Post Office sorting room, 215 Monona Avenue.
Photograph

U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 03 31 1928
Description: U.S. Post Office, with a close-up view of stone carving on a column capitol with a rosette over it, at 215 Monona Avenue. (Martin L. King Jr. Boulevard.)
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Demolition

Date: 1906
Description: Only the salvaged planking behind the "Forward" statue created by Jean Pond Miner indicates that anything more is going on in this picture than a peaceful ...
Photograph

Park Hotel

Date: 1874
Description: The Park Hotel.
Drawing

Cross Plains Tavern and School

Date: 1946
Description: Pencil drawing of a stone building in Cross Plains, which used to house a tavern downstairs and the town's school upstairs. Features a porch entrance, and ...
Photograph

Good Will Tour

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm (left) inspecting the 21 wheels of Marathon County cheddar cheese and keys to Wisconsin's vacation land on the steps of the Wiscon...
Photograph

Capitol Fire

Date: 02 1904
Description: A crowd watches as a stream of water is trained on the south wing of the burning third Wisconsin State Capitol. The Centennial Fountain, with a winter cove...
Postcard

Entrance to the Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1947
Description: Colorized postcard of the entrance to the Cave of the Mounds. A curved sign sits on two square stone pillars. The sign reads "Welcome, Cave of the Mounds, ...
Postcard

Oak Grove Parking Area at the Cave of the Mounds

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Description: Postcard of the entrance to the Cave of the Mounds. A curved sign sits on two square stone pillars. The sign reads: "Welcome, Cave of the Mounds, Drive In....
Photograph

Main Street

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Description: View down street of intersection at Main Street. The commercial street houses a bank, printing press, clothing shop, and hotel. A man makes repairs from a ...
Photograph

Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the Second Empire style Park Hotel at the corner of South Carroll and West Main Streets. There are horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and a smal...
Photograph

Bicyclist on Monona Avenue

Date: 1910
Description: A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha...
Photograph

Charles Solar Olson

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Solar Olson, in uniform, and a woman. He was a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following...
Print

Rigadoon Room Luncheon Menu

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Description: Luncheon menu from the Rigadoon Room in the Edgewater Hotel, with an illustration of twin gargoyle figures that stood on either side of a curtained doorway...
Print

Rigadoon Room Luncheon Menu

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Description: Luncheon menu from the Rigadoon Room in the Edgewater Hotel, with a gargoyle figure against a background of tied-back drapery, and spot illustrations of th...
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Omnibus Line in Front of Park Hotel

Date: 1878
Description: View from the street of a man holding the reins for a team of two horses and sitting in the driver's seat of the Omnibus Line in front of the Park Hotel on...
Print

Paisan's Menu

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Description: Front cover and pasta and pizza pages from Paisan's, an Italian restaurant. Features illustrations (signed "Christensen") of an archway and tables and chai...

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