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| Description: | Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome toward West Washington Avenue. The Park Hotel is on the left. The four church steeples that can be iden... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking south. Lake Monona is to the left, and West Washington Avenue is on the right. The Dane County Courthouse on ... |
| Date: | 07 14 1910 |
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| Description: | Woman and two passengers driving an International J-30 passenger car with its top down through a city park. Also known as the IHC 30, the J-30 was produced... |
| Date: | 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the International Harvester Choral Society posing near the Lincoln Memorial in Grant Park, with the Chicago skyline in the background. Th... |
| Date: | 05 28 1987 |
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| Description: | A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained. |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared during the early 1870s. Close scrutiny of the entrance (whether it is the north or south entrance cannot b... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | The Third Wisconsin State Capitol before the completion of the dome. After all four wings of the Third Capitol were completed, the second Capitol was demo... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of the third Wisconsin State Capitol looking west from King Street. By the turn of the century, the trees in the Capitol had grown tall and on... |
| Date: | 04 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Two women in bikinis are walking their dogs by a row of campers at Terry Andrae State Park. |
| Date: | 06 25 1964 |
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| Description: | Trees in the valley against the sun, below Stewart Park. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians and a horse and cart at the intersection of Main Street and Monona Avenue (South Wisconsin Avenue until December 1, 1877; Martin Luther King J... |
| Date: | 09 22 1962 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of trees and pool of water near the Wisconsin River in Pauquette Park. |
| Date: | 05 06 1962 |
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| Description: | An abandoned wagon sits in a meadow hollow in Kettle Moraine State Park. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | East Washington Avenue from the Capitol Park with a view of the water tower, which stood from 1890 to 1920. |
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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Lake Monona with the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the background. This view of Brittingham Park shows a part of the park shortl... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A steam-powered dredge anchored in Monona Bay is filling in Brittingham Park. |
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