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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People and carriages in front of the depot-hotel Railway Hotel on West Washington Avenue. This was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Ticket Offi... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Matthew J. Hoven with hands on hips standing in front of M.J. Hoven's Meat Market. A sign on the building reads: "Oyster Depot; Wholesale & Retail". There ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of City Hospital, which became known as Madison General Hospital and is now Meriter Hospital. It was designed by Madison architects Louis W. Claude an... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the neoclassical Gay Building, named after Madison developer Leonard W. Gay, at 16 N Carroll Street, one of the first high-rise buildings ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View looking northeast from the 2000 block of Sherman Avenue. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Braley family house located at 422 North Henry Street in which Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote "Laugh And The World Laughs With You, Cry and You ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Fuller Opera House looking over seats to the stage with 1,200 seats on a main floor, a second-level balcony, a third-level gallery, and ten... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view from the capitol looking west up State Street toward the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Holy Redeemer Church, Holy Redeemer School, Red Gy... |
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| Description: | A view of the Capitol Park and Pinckney Street taken approximately 1885-1890. The building in the center, at the intersection of Pinckney and East Washingt... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory. |
| Date: | 06 19 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of people posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch during its dedication. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | City Hall at the intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue and the Fuller Opera House on Mifflin Street. Snow on the ground. Both buildings were... |
| Date: | 12 02 1855 |
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| Description: | The Capital House bill of fare for Sunday, December 2, 1855. Proprietors were Nelson & Russell. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the new museum building, also known as "Bruen's Block," on the corner of East Washington Avenue and South Pinckney Street. Named for W.D. B... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing letterhead. Fuller & Johnson was run by John A. Johnson and was one of Madison's largest employers. |
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