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Visit Madison Wisconsin Map

Date: 
Description: The cover of a map which is titled: "Visit Madison Wisconsin the Capital of Vacationland". The cover lists various places to visit in the city.
Map or Atlas

You're Always Near Fun in Madison

Date: 
Description: This map of Madison is also a brochure of activities for vacationers in the area. Includes indexes and some points of interest shown pictorially.
Map or Atlas

Visit Madison Wisconsin the Capital of Vacationland

Date: 1950
Description: This map of Madison is also a brochure of activities for vacationers in the area. The map includes indexes and some points of interest are shown pictoriall...
Map or Atlas

Plan Now to See Madison, The Four Lake City, Wisconsin : The City Built on an Isthmus

Date: 1924
Description: Intended for tourists, this brochure, titled: "Plan Now to See Madison, The Four Lake City: "The City Built on an Isthmus," features a map of Madison and s...
Postcard

Sites of Madison — Collage

Date: 1960
Description: Views of popular sites in Madison. Numerous different types of recreation are depicted, along with popular sites such as the Wisconsin State Capitol buildi...
Photograph

Olin Park Tourist Camp

Date: 1925
Description: The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
Map or Atlas

Visitors' Guide Map of Madison : "The Four-Lake City of Year-Round Play" Showing Points of Interest, Summer and Winter

Date: 1927
Description: Map reads: "Now You Can Visualize Madison". Includes indexes, with points marked 1-98 and a key. Text and illustrations on verso include hotels and seasona...
Map or Atlas

City Map of Madison Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: This map features a legend of highways, railroads, parks, and service stations. The cover and inside of the map features pictures of attractions in Madison...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Four children stand on the observation deck watching planes at the Madison Municipal airport. The children include, from left to right: Carol, 3, Christine...
Photograph

St. Mary's Student Nurse Tour

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: Descending the steps from the Wisconsin State Capitol building are five new St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing students on a tour of Madison. Left to ri...
Photograph

Hoover Boat Tour

Date: 08 11 1951
Description: A Hoover Boat Company boat, with fourteen Madison aldermen and their parties, is taken on a tour of Lakes Mendota and Monona and the Yahara River.
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Christine and Bill Schuldt admiring posters and relics of circuses founded in Wisconsin at an exhibit in the State Historical Society Museum. The photograp...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Pat, 8, and Vicki Rohan, 14, examine some of the equipment in the press room of Madison Newspapers, Inc. The photograph was taken for part of an article su...
Print

E.L. Burwell Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of E.L. Burrell, mill and factory sale agent in Madison, Wisconsin, with a center halftone image of Wisconsin Dells with a drawn-in group of men...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Six year old twins Billy and Martha Haygood lying in the grass next to a pond, looking down at trout fingerlings swimming at the fish hatchery located on F...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Judith 7, and Barbara, 4, daughters of Dr. and Mrs Richard MacLean of Sheridan, Wyoming, watching cows being milked in the milking parlor at the Bowman Dai...
Photograph

"Madison" at Oshawa Cottages

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the "Madison" cottage. There are steps to the corner entrance of the screened-in porch. There is another cottage in the background on the ...
Photograph

AAA Display of Travel Materials

Date: 06 23 1939
Description: Display of travel materials for Wisconsin Division of AAA American Automobile Association Travel Bureau.
Photograph

Tour Guide in the State Capitol Building

Date: 10 1957
Description: Security guard giving a family a tour inside the State Capitol building.
Photograph

AAA Display Window

Date: 03 28 1939
Description: American Automobile Association display window showing Wisconsin travel brochures and pictures of tourist destinations around the state.

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