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State Street View on 400 Block

Date: 04 24 1964
Description: Image shows an empty lot on the 400 block of State Street across from Ella's Deli (425 State Street). In the lot are remnants of basement walls and brick r...
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University of Wisconsin Extension Building Construction

Date: 08 09 1961
Description: Construction of the University of Wisconsin's new Extension building on Lake Street between University Avenue and State Street.
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Making Room for the New Elvehjem Art Center

Date: 07 27 1965
Description: Workers and equipment are shown tearing down old student dwellings to make room for the Elvehjem Art Center complex. It is surrounded by Park Street, Unive...
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Bank of Madison

Date: 05 19 1961
Description: Street view of the Bank of Madison building at 1 West Main Street on the Capitol Square.
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Truax Chapel Choir Carolers

Date: 12 1961
Description: Night view of Truax Chapel Choir members standing on the steps at the State Street entrance of the Capitol Building singing Christmas carols to passers-by ...
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Fans Celebrate Wisconsin Football Victory Over Minnesota

Date: 11 24 1962
Description: 10,000 Badger football fans marching down State Street to celebrate Wisconsin's victory over Minnesota.
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Christmas Shopping Begins in Madison

Date: 11 29 1963
Description: Crowded with cars and shoppers, a holiday-decorated State Street is featured as Christmas shopping begins on the day after Thanksgiving.
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Confusing City Street Names

Date: 12 31 1964
Description: Harold Thompson, City Traffic Engineering Foreman, with a display of some street signs with look-alike and sound-alike names, a problem for fire and police...
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A.R. Chatman with His Spinet Harpsichord

Date: 12 12 1961
Description: A.R. Chatman, 1618 Sunfield Street, sitting at his spinet harpsichord.
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New Elks Club Lodge Clubhouse Opens at 711 Jenifer Street

Date: 03 11 1965
Description: The new Elks Club Lodge clubhouse is ready to open on Lake Monona at 711 Jenifer Street.
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State Bar of Wisconsin Presents Plaque to Felice M. Goodman

Date: 02 01 1965
Description: The State Bar of Wisconsin presents a plaque to Felice M. Goodman, 1015 Harrison Street, for writing an article entitled: "What A Wife Should Know" for the...
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Grace Episcopal Church Harvest Festival

Date: 11 20 1961
Description: Mrs. C.J. (Kath) Key, 423 North Carroll Street, left, and Mrs. Olive, MacKay, 2115 Madison Street, hand-crafted Christmas trees at the Harvest Festival at ...
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Outdoor Living Week

Date: 05 25 1961
Description: A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 23 1961
Description: "Caponata," an eggplant relish, won the first place prize in foreign cookery in the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest. The recipe was submitted by M...
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Opening of the Park Motor Inn on Madison's Capitol Square

Date: 05 02 1963
Description: Street view of the new Park Motor Inn on Madison's Capitol Square.
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Parked Motorcycle on Madison Street

Date: 11 01 1961
Description: An illegally parked motorcycle on Park Street in Madison. The photograph was taken to show that riders don't always use the newly marked smaller stalls int...
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Snow Storm through the Windshield

Date: 01 06 1962
Description: View of a snow storm through a windshield of an automobile while driving west down State Street. This was the first snow storm of the new year with 4 inche...
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Fireside Pancake House Party

Date: 08 30 1961
Description: Looking at a menu at an open house and party at the Fireside Pancake House, 625 State Street, is Jimmy Jansen, 3. The open house is sponsored by the restau...
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Fireside Pancake House Party

Date: 08 30 1960
Description: Holding a fork and gazing at a plate piled high with pancakes during an open house and party at the Fireside Pancake House, 625 State Street, is Jeffery Du...
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Demolition At "30 on the Square" Site

Date: 12 16 1964
Description: View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki...

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