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Local Boilermakers and Helpers

Date: 1914
Description: Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o...
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Yahara River

Date: 1920
Description: View of the Yahara, or "Catfish" River.
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Wisconsin Rubber Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Rubber Company of Madison, Wisconsin, which operated the Florida plantation in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Includes an oval i...
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Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Co. Memohead

Date: 
Description: Memohead of the Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Company of Madison, Wisconsin, manufacturers of "Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, etc.," with two text...
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Sherman Park — Residential Section

Date: 1929
Description: View down Sherman Avenue, across from Sherman Park. A billboard facing the street advertises a "Big Lot Sale!"
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Lyle Lilly in Badger Ordnance Motorcyle Police Uniform

Date: 1944
Description: Lyle Lilly (1916-2011) stands in front of his home at 838 Woodrow Street in Madison, Wisconsin. He is wearing his motorcyle police uniform that he wore whi...
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University of Wisconsin Buildings

Date: 09 07 1900
Description: View across fields towards University of Wisconsin Madison buildings. On the left is standing the home of the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Stephen M...
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Outdoor Life

Date: 05 20 1957
Description: Dorothy L. Day and Ruth E. Van Tassel show off their form as archers. They and their husbands are members of the Blackhawk Archery Club.
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Outdoor Life

Date: 05 14 1957
Description: Hariett Narowetz and Irene L. Marsh pull their golf bags across the golf course.
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Trip to University Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with boys and girls resting, exploring the flowers, and posing before a hike, during a fi...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Best Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ...
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club

Date: 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Garden Club posing in their yards or next to their plants. Started in 1931 as part of...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Children

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Junior Garden Club members on an outing to Babcock Memorial Gardens at the University of Wisconsin; ...
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Lyman Draper's Barn

Date: 1948
Description: Barn on the property of Lyman Copeland Draper on West Washington Avenue. Books which formed the basis for the State Historical Library collections were kep...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 1-6

Date: 
Description: We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake
But the community interests ought to come fir...
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Second O'Dea Family Home on Park Street

Date: 1912
Description: Childhood home of David E. O'Dea (born February 7th, 1920) at 1035 Park Street. This is the second O'Dea family home.
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Summer Cottages

Date: 05 16 1908
Description: View across water of the summer cottages on Maple Bluff.
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Maple Bluff

Date: 05 16 1908
Description: A view from the west of Maple Bluff. Part of the roof of a cottage can be seen above the bluff.
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Governor's Island

Date: 05 16 1908
Description: View across water of Governor's Island. There is a far shoreline in the background on the left.

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