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| Date: | 08 30 1932 |
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| Description: | 1898 Oldsmobile decorated with advertising for "Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Person" at RKO Orpheum Theatre in front of Weber's Restaurant, 218 State Street.... |
| Date: | 06 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Men posing during a golf stunt, as they try to hit a golf ball off a man's nose while he is lying on his back on the floor in the lobby of the Orpheum Thea... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
| Date: | 12 09 1932 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Hoffman, member of Phi Sigma Sigma sorority, is shown dropping money into milk bottle held by Harley Droster, an usher at the Orpheum Theatre. Mone... |
| Date: | 06 05 1931 |
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| Description: | RKO parade float, with people on the float and ushers standing beside, advertising "cool and comfortable as a summer vacation" for the Orpheum and Capitol ... |
| Date: | 12 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta... |
| Date: | 03 21 1935 |
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| Description: | A man is selling neckties to blues singer Emerie Ann Lincoln, at Spoo & Stephan Store, 18 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 13 1932 |
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| Description: | "RKO Greater Show Season" promotional truck with calliope, and signs advertising Raquel Torres in Fanchon and Marco's "Malibu Beach" and Jack Holt and Ralp... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The Beavers Insurance Building at the corner of Monona Avenue (currently Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard) and Doty Street. It was built in 1921-1922 and ... |
| Date: | 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View of heavy automobile traffic, delivery trucks and pedestrians on State Street, seen looking west from the 200 block. In the background is Bascom Hill, ... |
| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Comedians Ole Olsen and "Chic" Johnson, called "the mirth provokers of a nation," posing in front of a streetcar that displays an advertisement for their "... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of heavy automobile traffic, delivery trucks and pedestrians on State Street at North Carroll Street. View reaches to Bascom Hill of... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking east from Johnson Street, towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. On the corner on the left is Glasgow Tailers, and further up the b... |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Surrounded by onlookers, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are riding in a wire cage on the back of a "Federal" brand truck. The truck is on the bed of another "F... |
| Date: | 01 31 1958 |
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| Description: | March of Dimes treasurer, Frank Sackman, holding a check for money collected in four local theaters for the infantile paralysis fund campaign by teenage vo... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A view from the 200 block of State Street looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. This urban scene includes marquees for the Orpheum Theatre and the Ca... |
| Date: | 12 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Night view looking down State Street from the intersection at North Carroll Street. Lighting up the scene are the blurred lights of automobiles moving alon... |
| Date: | 03 10 1932 |
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| Description: | The Commercial National Bank building, on the corner of State and Carroll Streets, housed the bank as well as Mrs. Brown's Beauty Shoppe and Wegener and Ro... |
| Date: | 12 23 1959 |
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| Description: | View down State Street from the Capitol Square following a snowstorm. A Christmas tree is standing on the corner, and other holiday decorations are hanging... |
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