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Maypole Dancers on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon...
Photograph

Maypole Dance on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ...
Postcard

Main Street, Looking West

Date: 1916
Description: View across street looking west from 15th Street towards houses on the left side. Caption reads: "Main Street looking west, La Crosse, Wis."
Photograph

Hawley House

Date: 1916
Description: The J.C. Hawley house, also known as the Evergreens. The base of a water tower is in the front yard on the left.
Painting

Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 03 16 1916
Description: Benjamin Walker Castle, 900 block East Gorham Street, ca. 1862-1893.
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High School

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of the high school. Caption reads: "High School, Oakfield, Wis."
Postcard

State College

Date: 1916
Description: A building on the campus of Wisconsin State College (State Normal School). Caption reads: "State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis."
Photograph

"Haystacks and Steeples" Scene

Date: 1916
Description: Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon in a scene from "Haystacks and Steeples".
Photograph

Fritz and Robert Lamp House

Date: 1916
Description: View of the Fritz and Robert Lamp house at 1024 Sherman Avenue that was built in 1897. A young child and a dog are in the front yard.
Photograph

Bascom Hall Fire

Date: 10 10 1916
Description: Elevated view over rooftops from the south of a fire which destroyed the Bascom Hall rotunda.
Photograph

Lathrop Hall

Date: 1916
Description: View of hall from across University Avenue on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Built in 1910 as a woman's gymnasium.
Photograph

P&H Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 15 1916
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l...
Photograph

Overland Touring Cars

Date: 1916
Description: Overland Company of Illinois was saved from a multitude of financial issues by John Willys, a skillful salesman, in 1907. Shown in this photograph are men ...
Photograph

Aero Cable Car

Date: 1916
Description: Slightly elevated view of people in the Whirlpool Aero Car, opened in 1916, departing from the station and crossing the whirlpool of Niagara Falls.
Postcard

High School

Date: 08 02 1916
Description: Colorized photographic postcard from across a street of the high school. There is a stone wall in front of the school, and a steep hill behind. Caption rea...
Postcard

St. Mary's Boarding and High School

Date: 08 23 1916
Description: Color photographic postcard depicting five scenes from St. Mary's Boarding and High School, including women on campus, a section of the chapel, the recepti...
Postcard

Owen Street

Date: 06 07 1916
Description: View looking down Owen Street. A church steeple i on the right, partly obscured by trees. Caption reads: "Owen Street, Arcadia, Wis."
Photograph

Front of Reymert's Printing Office

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of front of James DeNoon Reymert's printing office, built in 1847. This office printed the first Norwegian newspaper, the "Nordlyset," in the...
Photograph

Side of Reymert's Printing Office

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of side of the James DeNoon Reymert's printing office, built in 1847. This office printed the first Norwegian newspaper, the "Nordlyset," in ...
Photograph

Film Still from "Dollars and Sense"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still - exterior - depicting a young man and young woman looking at each other. The man is played by the actress playing the young woman shown in the ...

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