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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a Main Street. A drugstore can be seen prominently on the left. Trees line the sidewalk on the right. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West, St... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view at night of streetcars moving along the Capitol Square on Pinckney Street. Walzinger's Drugstore is one of the prominent storefronts on the l... |
| Date: | 09 05 1913 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An exhibition airplane on display inside a tent at Dixon, Illinois, thought to be a "Red Devil," plane designed by Thomas A. Baldwin. |
| Date: | 09 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcar... |
| Date: | 08 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Souvenir postcard sent to Harriet O'Shea of Madison from an unidentified friend who attended the Chicago International Aviation Meet. The Chicago meet, whi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | St. Mary's Hospital soon after its completion in 1911. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Hospital." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Central High School, designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert and partially razed in 1986. Caption reads: "High School, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Depot at Beloit. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Depot, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This card which is postmarked 1912 shows the zinc statutes on the stone gateways near the sidewalk at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Ori... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc on the shores of Lake Michigan. A map of the northeastern part of the United States at the top indicates Manitowoc's location ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons. The memorial was built to honor Wisconsin Civil War soldiers and is located on the University of Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Top image on Place File card. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View, Camp Ra... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Central R. R. Depot, Ladysmith, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Construction workers on a building site at International Harvester's Lubertzy Works in Russia. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The Soo line roundhouse. Caption reads: "Soo Round House, Abbottsford, Wis." |
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