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Main Street

Date: 1909
Description: View of Main Street with streetcar. Caption reads: "Main Street, Madison, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Madison and Vicinity

Date: 1920
Description: A map of Madison and the vicinity. Red lines show the street railway.
Photograph

Madison Traction Company Repair Shop

Date: 1909
Description: The repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue, with five streetcars and a team of horses in the foreground.
Photograph

Madison City Railways Crew

Date: 1911
Description: Streetcar and crew of the Madison City Railways Company. The streetcar number is #50 and the route sign says Wingra Park.
Photograph

Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1911
Description: Entrance to the Forest Hill Cemetery, with a streetcar on the right.
Photograph

Park Street Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1906
Description: Newly-constructed streetcar tracks on Park Street, looking south from State Street. The eastern edge of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus can be s...
Postcard

Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: The Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street, on the Capitol Square with pedestrians, automobiles and a streetcar. Caption reads: "New Prk Hotel, Madison, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Map of Madison and Vicinity

Date: 1917
Description: Shows property already platted (orange), public property (green), street railway (red lines), Lake Forest development area (red), and some landownership. T...
Photograph

Northwestern Railroad Station

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad station, 219 S. Blair St., along with the Lake View Hotel, 524 E. Wilson St, in Madison. A man holding...
Photograph

Intersection of Johnson and State Street

Date: 1929
Description: View of State Street towards the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at the 300 Block of State Street, with Dr. M.J. Hoffman Dentist, Savidusky's Cleane...
Photograph

New Pavement for Additional Lansing Street

Date: 03 23 1949
Description: Madison streets, additional Lansing Street addresses, are being paved. Shown are 149 Lansing Street, 141 Lansing Street, 137 Lansing Street, 133 Lansing St...
Photograph

State Street

Date: 1929
Description: View of State Street looking toward the University of Wisconsin Madison campus from the Wisconsin State Capitol, with marquees for Ward-Brodt Music Co., Le...
Photograph

View of 600 Block State Street

Date: 1929
Description: View down State Street, with the Carol Shop and H.H. Petrie Sporting Goods.
Photograph

Street Railroad Car

Date: 1925
Description: View over sidewalk of a street railroad car passing the old Northwestern Railroad Station on the 400 block of West Lakeside Street.
Photograph

King Street with Streetcar

Date: 1904
Description: Looking down King Street with streetcar. A sign that reads, "Base Ball Today" is strung over the street and the Wisconsin State Capitol is in the backgroun...
Postcard

Main St. (East) Madison, Wis.

Date: 1909
Description: View of Main Street along the Capitol Square facing east. Streetcar tracks in the street. Businesses include a piano store, a dry goods store and a restaur...
Photograph

Fair Oaks Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen...
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul East Madison Railroad Station

Date: 1918
Description: A view looking east along East Wilson Street with the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul East Madison railroad station, 501 East Wilson Street, on the right....
Photograph

Construction Of Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1905
Description: Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square...
Photograph

Blied Building and West Main Street

Date: 06 14 1935
Description: The Blied Building with storefronts, from left to right: Western Union, 21 W. Main Street, Madison Trust Company, 23 W. Main Street, Fanny Farmer, 25 W. Ma...

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