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| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | An observer leans on a parking meter on Monona Avenue to watch the demolition of the Madison Theater to make way for a new building to house a J.C. Penney ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two men watching the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater from the Capitol grounds in Madison. The photograph was taken with a new telephoto... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two busy Madison lawyers pause to watch the demolition of buildings on Madison's Capitol Square to be replaced with a new building to house a J. C. Penney ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Edwin Stein taking photographs of people around Capitol Square using a new telephoto lens. He is down the block from the new Belmont Hotel and in front of ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 11 23 1957 |
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| Description: | City workers install holiday decorations and lights on light poles on the corner of South Carroll and W. Main Streets at the Capitol Square. A man is seen ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Two Madison Gas and Electric Company workmen checking pipes on Main Street in downtown Madison after two gas blasts and fires rocked downtown Madison, kill... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Workmen from Madison Gas and Electric Company work on Main Street at the Capitol Square to check for gas leaks after two explosions rocked downtown Madison... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A Madison Gas and Electric Company worker probing for gas leaks with a meter on the Capitol Square after two explosions rocked downtown Madison, killing tw... |
| Date: | 04 25 1958 |
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| Description: | State Bar president R.E. Anderson and past president Alfred LaFrance participate in the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new Wisconsin Bar Center at 402... |
| Date: | 07 14 1905 |
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| Description: | "About four o'clock I took a snapshot of the courthouse, which is now removed as far as on eighth Str.," wrote photographer John A. Glander in his diary en... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Model Marlyn Sachtjen paddling around in the 16 by 32 foot pool which was constructed on the Capitol Park overlooking State Street. Ruth Andres sits at the... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Model Marlyn Sachjen being helped out of the temporary pool which had been constructed on Capitol Park at the head of State Street. She had been modeling s... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Model Marlyn Sachtjen sitting on the edge of a temporary pool that had been installed on Capitol Park. She is wet after having fallen off a floating raft w... |
| Date: | 07 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Glass workers repair damage to 14 store windows on State Street after John O'Connor smashed them during the night and stole items from Goodman's Jewelry St... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | View down center of State Street at the intersection of W. Gilman Street. On the left men are working near construction barriers in the street in front of ... |
| Date: | 10 24 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade, Wausau, Wisconsin." Elevated view of a parade on a city street with street car tracks, near an u... |
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