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| Date: | 06 19 1953 |
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| Description: | Right hand view showing dignitaries, graduates, and crowd gathered for the U.W. graduation ceremony in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. It ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View from King Street towards the right side of the Fess Hotel. Automobiles are parked along the curb. |
| Date: | 04 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Liquor store at the Park Hotel. Two men are standing on the upper level of the two-story display of bottles, which is well lit. |
| Date: | 05 28 1959 |
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| Description: | A robin feeding a worm to baby birds in a nest located in a flower pot on the balcony of the C.A. Grant apartment, 111 Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 09 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Kienitz and Freda K. Winterble in front of the Petheridge/Isom/Keystone house, built in 1853. The residence, located at 901 University Bay Drive, i... |
| Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers on the Capitol lawn to watch the Americanization Pageant, "A Thoroughfare for Freedom," as it is portrayed on the balcony of the East wing.... |
| Date: | 10 27 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior of the new, self-service Woolworth's variety store, 2-8 West Mifflin Street, showing lower sales area and balcony at the back of the store with me... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a... |
| Date: | 10 27 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior of the new, self-service Woolworth's variety store at 2-8 West Mifflin Street. The view is toward the front from the balcony, showing main floor s... |
| Date: | 09 28 1959 |
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| Description: | Bishop O'Connor tells an overflow crowd of one thousand people about his audience with the Pope in Rome and announced that the Pope extended his personal a... |
| Date: | 04 12 1958 |
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| Description: | A fake duck sits on the railing of a balcony at the Town House Apartments, 111 West Main Street. The stuffed duck was placed there by "trickster" Fred Nort... |
| Date: | 01 12 1955 |
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| Description: | James J. Burke (of 636 Adams Street), State Revisor of Statutes, looking on from the gallery as the 1955 Wisconsin State Legislative session begins. |
| Date: | 01 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Frank Sloup (of West Allis) looking on from the gallery with binoculars as his grandfather, Arthur Blazer (D-Milwaukee), is sworn in for the 1955 Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the upper stories and the roof edge above the entrance to the Fess Hotel. There is a partial view of the sign above the entrance, and a wi... |
| Date: | 01 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Standing audience for the inauguration of Wisconsin's new governor, Gaylord Nelson, in the Capitol Rotunda. A sign posted on the second-floor railing reads... |
| Date: | 03 12 1958 |
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| Description: | A fake duck sitting on the railing of a balcony at the Town House Apartments, 111 West Main Street. The stuffed duck was placed there by "trickster" Fred N... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from the top of King Street towards the Fess Hotel, with cars parked along the curb. There are three hotel signs: a large sign on the roof, a... |
| Date: | 01 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Proud assemblymen's wives watching from the state assembly gallery as the 1955 State Assembly session begins. Mrs. Earl Warren (sitting on the left) is mar... |
| Date: | 07 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Seven U.W. co-eds, candidates for queen of the summer prom, lined up on the railing of the Memorial Union terrace. Left to right: Mimi Graham, Moline, IL; ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Ernest LaBella, Capital Decorating Co., is repairing a seat in the West High School auditorium as part of an effort to prepare city school buildings for th... |
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