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| Date: | 09 27 1913 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards commercial buildings along a street. There is a wooden sided railroad car on the tracks in the foreground. A sign on th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks towards a crowd of people along a commercial street near horse-drawn vehicles and a street railroad car. |
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| Description: | View across and down unpaved street, toward buildings on the right. Many of the storefronts are wood-framed, with two buildings further down the street mad... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an unpaved main street, with the Village House across the street in the center background. Wooden buildings and wooden sidewalks are on bo... |
| Date: | 12 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Post-Christmas shoppers exchanging or returning unwanted Christmas gifts crowd downtown Madison sidewalks. |
| Date: | 12 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Traffic crowds Madison downtown streets and parking stalls as shoppers return or exchange unwanted Christmas gifts. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street toward several buildings, and a horse-drawn buggy near a fence. The building on the left has an awning with the sign "[?]obosel ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A view of the businesses present on Silver Street, Hurley's main street, less than three years after the city's settlement. City residents and a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 08 02 1960 |
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| Description: | From the Wisconsin State Journal: Wisconsin Secretary of State Robert C. Zimmerman has walked every weekday after working in the State Capitol, for ... |
| Date: | 06 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street, taken from the rooftop of an adjacent building looking north from South Carroll Street. West Main... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A uniformed police officer stands in an intersection and holds his hand out in the direction of several children. Cars are in the background. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 04 23 1959 |
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| Description: | View of the new west wing for the state office building at 1 West Wilson Street, looking along Wilson Street from the west. The wing will house about 600 p... |
| Date: | 03 26 1959 |
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| Description: | View from inside looking through show window towards two young girls holding umbrellas who are standing outdoors on the sidewalk on the Capitol Square. The... |
| Date: | 01 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Two women, seen from behind, are using umbrellas while walking on a snowy sidewalk on the first block of East Main Street on the Capitol Square in Madison. |
| Date: | 02 11 1959 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of shoppers appears on Madison's State Street due to the influx of 5,800 teachers attending the Southern Wisconsin Education Association teache... |
| Date: | 02 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Man shoveling snow on the sidewalk of North Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of riders are standing on the sidewalk waiting for a bus on Madison's Capitol square during a winter storm that brought a 5-inch snowfall and high ... |
| Date: | 01 22 1958 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians buck a stiff headwind walking along the Capitol square during a winter snowstorm that brought a 5-inch snowfall and stiff winds in Madison. |
| Date: | 12 25 1958 |
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| Description: | No people in sight along the Main Street side of Madison's Capitol square on a balmy Christmas afternoon. |
| Date: | 05 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, display window featuring summer dresses with black and white checks. Includes five mannequins and a sign stating... |
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