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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking toward the University of Wisconsin, with the 200 block in the foreground. The marquee for the Capitol Theatre reads "'Jealousy,' ... |
| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | The Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) office building on the corner of North Fairchild and West Mifflin Streets. The Bedford limestone building was designed ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1934 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Employment Office, formerly the Capital City Bank, located on the corner of King and South Pinckney Streets. On the left is Liggett's ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Man delivering a stack of Boston Herald newspapers from an International C-series truck parked along the curb in the downtown Boston area at Boston Common.... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Originally the Evangelical Association's Immanuel Church, 106 North Hamilton Street, which was converted into a waiting room for the Jackson Clinic shown t... |
| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the Paul E. Stark Co. building, 124 W. Mifflin Street. The view also includes the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Life Insur... |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | The Orpheum Theatre under construction, 216 State Street, looking east at back side of buildings on State Street, with construction workers, truck and stea... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Construction site with construction crew working, people walking on the sidewalk, and a billboard advertising Oshkosh B'gosh. |
| Date: | 03 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, from intersection of West Main Street and South Fairchild Street looking at first and second f... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A crane is used in the demolition of City Hall on the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | East Water Street at Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is in the background. At the left is the Waldheim and Company Department Store of 407-411 East Water Stree... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men at work on a bridge under construction. A sign on a building in the background reads: "Drake Brothers Co." and "Drugs • Oils • Paints." |
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