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| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across East Main Street towards the Suhr building. On the left is an entrance and show windows for the Huegel-Hyland shoe store during its Going Out o... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View from intersection of East Main and King Streets towards the corner entrance of the Suhr building, which is for the Virgo Lounge. There is a large elec... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across King Street towards the Suhr building. The corner entrance to the building is for the Virgo Lounge. An entrance to the right of the lounge has ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across West Johnson Street towards Rundell's Beauty Salon (right) and Neesvig Meats (left). A car is parked along the curb, and a bicycle is parked ne... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across North Carroll Street towards the back end of the Wisconsin Building. The words "Office Entrance" are carved into the stone above the main door.... |
| Date: | 01 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Three Wisconsin State Journal newspaper boys. They are standing on a city sidewalk by parking meters with satchels slung over their shoulders and pa... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street towards four buildings. The building on the far left is Discount Records, Inc. and Taco Grande. The second building (State St. Inv... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street, on the corner of North Henry Street, towards two buildings. The one on the left was Burger Chef, but is vacant, with signs on the... |
| Date: | 09 17 1964 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians pass a replica of the Eiffel Tower being constructed by workers at the corner of East Washington and Pinckney Streets on the Capitol Square. Th... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? A reporter accompanied two workers from the City-County building to find out. Doris ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Doris Ardelt and Joal Fenn order lunch at a downtown Madison cafeteria. |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A policeman and a night watchman narrowly escaped injury when a huge mound of excavated dirt fell on a house adjacent to the new State Office building cons... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? After lunch Doris Ardelt cashes in a book of saving stamps at a downtown department ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Tempted by a display of hats, Doris Ardelt (reflected in the mirror) and Joal Fenn l... |
| Date: | 09 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Large crowd gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol to hear Senator Barry Goldwater speak. Reporters and photographers are gathered in the foreground. A mi... |
| Date: | 08 03 1957 |
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| Description: | "Wisconsin" - the statue atop the State Capitol building's dome. A painter is hanging from the statue's neck by a climbing rope, pulleys, and a bench while... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the West Tower of the State Office Building at 1 West Wilson Street while it is under construction. Steel vertical and horizontal members,... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Steel construction workers are standing on exposed beams for the new constriction of the West Tower of the Wisconsin State Office Building at 1 West Wilson... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two men are watching from a shady spot in Capitol Park as buildings are being demolished to make way for a J.C. Penney store. The photograph was taken with... |
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