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Blacktopping a Residential Street

Date: 1955
Description: A construction crew blacktopping a Madison residential street.
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Blacktopping a Suburban Street

Date: 1955
Description: Blacktopping a new Madison residential street. Construction of the ranch-style houses in the background is almost complete.
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Madison Flood in Subdivision

Date: 07 03 1954
Description: View of the flooded yard of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Stormer at 829 Burbank Place in the Garden Homes subdivision of Madison.
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Madison Housing Development at McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Roadert

Date: 05 22 1954
Description: Madison housing development at the corner of McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Road in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood. Shows homes, sprawling backyards and tel...
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Madison Flood in Subdivision

Date: 07 03 1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Willard Burbank look at the flooded basement of their home at 829 Burbank Place in the Garden Homes subdivision of Madison.
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Madison Suburban High School Sports League

Date: 09 10 1952
Description: Group portrait of the principals and coaches from seven of the nine member schools of the Madison Suburban High School Sports League.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: The Madison Free Library bookmobile is pulling up in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city housing development. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus....
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Pushing the Lawn Mower

Date: 1955
Description: A man who does odd jobs around his neighborhood mows a banked lawn.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 08 1954
Description: Seen through the inside of a window in the bookmobile are Patricia Stoffel, her daughter Nancy, and a neighbor boy, Mark Albertus, approaching the back doo...
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House in Olbrich Park Subdivision — Madison

Date: 02 22 1950
Description: Front view of a house to be used in an advertisement for home and subdivision development. The current address of this home is 3736 Sargent Street.
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WKOW-TV Studio

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: The new WKOW-TV Studio located on Gilbert Road. The tall television antenna is jutting up from behind the building.
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Crawford Heights Aerial Photo

Date: 12 23 1953
Description: Aerial view of Crawford Heights looking northwest across Nakoma Road. The photograph shows Nakoma Road, the West Beltline, Cherokee School, and Midvale Bou...
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Crawford Heights Aerial View

Date: 12 22 1953
Description: Aerial photograph of Crawford Heights looking west along the West Beltline. The photograph shows Nakoma Road, Midvale Boulevard, Cherokee School, and the A...
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Crawford Heights Aerial View

Date: 12 23 1953
Description: Aerial view of Crawford Heights looking west along the West Beltline. The photograph shows Nakoma Road, Midvale Boulevard, Cherokee School, and the Arboret...
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Crawford Heights Aerial View

Date: 12 23 1953
Description: Aerial view of Crawford Heights looking north along Midvale Boulevard. The photograph shows Nakoma Road, the West Beltline, Cherokee School, and Midvale Bo...
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Crawford Heights Aerial View

Date: 12 23 1953
Description: Aerial view of Crawford Heights looking northeast along Nakoma Road, across the West Beltline. The photograph shows Midvale Boulevard and Lake Mendota appe...
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Crawford Heights Aerial View

Date: 12 23 1953
Description: Aerial view of Crawford Heights looking north by northwest along the West Beltline with Cherokee School and the Arboretum at lower right and Lake Mendota a...
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House

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Single-family, one-story home for sale by Mohawk Realty in a newly built housing suburb. A telephone pole is standing behind the house on the left. There a...
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Parade of Homes

Date: 09 13 1952
Description: View of the first of the thousands of people who toured the 18 new homes erected by 15 builders at Nakoma Road and the West Beltline. The Parade of Homes w...
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Marshall Boys Basketball Champions

Date: 02 14 1950
Description: Marshall high school gained basketball title honors in the Madison Suburban League for the sixth time in the 24-year history of the circuit. Coach Leonard ...

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