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| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Cars line up at Shell Oil service pits on E. Gorham Street during the Madison Soap Box Derby. Drivers, and a crowd of people on the sidewalk are looking on... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards five women sitting together on the pier at Esther Beach. Boats are moored along the pier. People are in a boat near the end of ... |
| Date: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | A display of flowers for sale on the sidewalk at the Dane County Farmers' Market. A person (out of frame) is standing in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 11 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Council of Church Women are shown with bundles of warm clothing and blankets, shoes and school supplies from Madison Sunday school c... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across stream in marshy area towards a group of people gathered around an aircraft wreck. |
| Date: | 11 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Joan Taliaferro sitting at a piano with Madison Civic Symphony orchestra conductor Walter Heermann. She is to play with the orchestra at their young people... |
| Date: | 10 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Man standing at an oven at the Memorial Union kitchen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A person can be seen standing on the right with a camera or light. |
| Date: | 03 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women wait at the doors of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavilion where hundreds of people had to be turned away because of lack of spa... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | A pen and ink illustration. Text on back reads: "A whimsical glimpse of Madison as seen by illustrator Brian Strassburg. Designed exclusively for Madison M... |
| Date: | 08 04 1979 |
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| Description: | A person wearing a Richard Nixon mask and flashing a peace sign is posing with Michael Kienitz, who is holding a megaphone and wearing a t-shirt advertisin... |
| Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Five people admire a book entitled "Go South To Sorrow" which will be given as a prize for the NAACP's Madison branch membership drive at the annual freedo... |
| Date: | 10 30 1915 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of people identified as "settlers" (lot buyers) to the Nakoma development. Many of the people are wearing or holding a long-stemmed ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Gisholt Home for the Aged, 3030 City View Drive at Burke Road on Madison's far east side. |
| Date: | 02 24 1961 |
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| Description: | More than 150 Madison area young people in vocational-agricultural classes and 4-H clubs took part in the activity of judging 20 pork cuts and placing 10 l... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | People stand near several carts, which are hitched to horses. In some carts boxes of vegetables are visible. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. August, 1917. Cu... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A Madison Gas and Electric Company worker probing for gas leaks with a meter on the Capitol Square after two explosions rocked downtown Madison, killing tw... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Copy of a family portrait that includes a father, daughter and three sons. Two people on the right are only partially visible. |
| Date: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated around a banquet dinner table. Several people are sitting in wheelchairs, and there are crutches leaning against the wall. A group of ... |
| Date: | 07 31 1978 |
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| Description: | When he began his campaign for Governor, few people felt that Lee Sherman Dreyfus would be successful. Although his campaign was underfunded, he attracted... |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician... |
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