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| Date: | 09 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Madison East High School football team. |
| Date: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the new Madison Public Library bookmobile parked in front of the City-County building on Monona Boulevard. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Map reads: "TAX EXEMPT LAND in the CITY OF MADISON". There is a legend of "Government Land" represented in stripes, "Religious and Fraternal Organization" ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison lakeshore taken from Lake Monona in line with South Pinckney Street. Includes 1 West Wilson Street state office building, the Wisconsin St... |
| Date: | 06 16 1953 |
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| Description: | 46 Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys, 17 from Madison and 29 from the area — all winners of a recent magazine subscription contest — leave Madison by bu... |
| Date: | 09 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Madison East Shopping Center at 2925 East Washington Avenue. Some of the stores are the Harry S. Manchester Department Store, Krogers,... |
| Date: | 11 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Spectators and members at the Madison City Council meeting on November 24, 1953. Alderman R.E. Nuckles is leaning on a table while listening to the proceed... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard of an elevated view of Monona Bay, the Isthmus and Lake Mendota. A residential neighborhood is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Madi... |
| Date: | 05 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison housing development at the corner of McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Road in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood. Shows homes, sprawling backyards and tel... |
| Date: | 05 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Alfred W. Bareis who is starting his 25th year as Madison city clerk. He had previously been a clothing salesman and was a popular singer. |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Old City Hall being razed with a crane and wrecking ball. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View looking northeast along Mifflin Street near its intersection with Carroll Street on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Avenue entrance to the Kennedy Manor apartments. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A public bus crosses the bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood, looking east. |
| Date: | 06 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Sherman Terrace Apartments and surrounding area. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of bridge and overhanging tree on Willow Drive at the University. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wisconsin General Hospital. |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Doris Ardelt and Joal Fenn order lunch at a downtown Madison cafeteria. |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two men watching the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater from the Capitol grounds in Madison. The photograph was taken with a new telephoto... |
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