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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Commercial building with road (Broad Street) in foreground. Cars are parked in the lot, with Village Hall and residences in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the International delivery trucks. Features a color illustration of a De Luxe delivery trucks "with All-Steel . . . Streamlined Metr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man delivering a block of ice to a residential home (150 Lakewood Blvd.) using an International D-300 Oscar Mayer truck with special streamlined body. The ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Woman wearing a mink coat boarding an International Metro KB-3-M truck owned by Atlantic City Jitney Service. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of downtown area, with the Fox River and neighboring suburbs. |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Road and stone retaining wall in front of Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking toward the Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Ave... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking north toward Lake Mendota. In the distance a man is holding a white rope to show where the new ... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking north toward Lake Mendota with a man holding a white rope across stone retaining walls, to show... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, with white rope showing where new road will require the cutting down of l... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, on left of road, looking south down the Drive to University Avenue. |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking north toward Lake Mendota, showing trees on right side of road and house on the left, 928 Unive... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking north toward Lake Mendota, showing large trees on adjoining property. |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A large barn and outbuilding on the Quaker Oats farm, 4202 Monona Drive. |
| Date: | 10 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Erwin and Claire Tiffany home, 1001 Seminole Highway, Nakoma. It was built in 1925, and was owned by Christina and Ellis Dana in 1945. |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump. |
| Date: | 04 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph of the west side of Madison and the western edge of Lake Mendota. Taken over the west side of Madison looking northwest toward Middleton. |
| Date: | 12 13 1948 |
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| Description: | The street directory for Maple Bluff was delivered by Marshall A.J. Taft around the Christmas season. The contents of the directory reveal the growth of Ma... |
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