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Harvey Home Marker

Date: 1953
Description: View of the Governor Louis P. Harvey home marker. Two women are standing behind the sign. A clock is at top right.
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Fashion Model in Front of Carillon Tower

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchester's Department Store model modeling a dress, hat, and purse in front of the Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 21 1956
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, sportswriter for Wisconsin State Journal, with five girls who put on a neighborhood style show t...
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Train Travelers

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Description: Portrait of a group of men, women, and a child on a railroad platform. Railroad cars are in the background.
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Woman Walking with Parasol

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Description: View down wooden sidewalk towards a woman walking and holding a parasol. There are wooden buildings in the background.
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Winnipeg Y-Teens Visit Madison

Date: 04 08 1958
Description: Three women standing outdoors on a sidewalk viewing a dress on a mannequin in the foreground inside a show window on Capitol Square. They are (L-R): Linda ...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified group of people. Four women and one man are posing standing on a wooden walkway in a yard.
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Exterior portrait of an unidentified woman posing standing on a road near a wooden sidewalk. She is holding a purse in her left hand, and is wearing a dark...
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Line of People at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Group of people standing outdoors waiting to enter the Milwaukee Theater for the Republican presidential debate.
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Teachers Convention in Madison

Date: 02 14 1958
Description: A teacher from Baraboo holding up a parking ticket she had received, as her colleagues from Baraboo are standing nearby, smiling and pointing. The side of ...
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Church on Easter Sunday

Date: 04 06 1969
Description: Children walking out of church after the Easter Sunday service at St. James United Methodist Church at 1114 West Brown Street.
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Christmas Tree from Wisconsin

Date: 1983
Description: Congressman David R. Obey (standing below the C) greets a delegation from Wisconsin that accompanied the official Capitol Christmas Tree cut in the Chequam...
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City's All It's Cracked Up to Be

Date: 04 06 1975
Description: View of the 2800 block of Atwood Avenue showing the condition of the sidewalk. Show three sets of people's legs walking toward a large hole and cracks in t...
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Shoppers and Strollers

Date: 06 2014
Description: Crowd of men and women walking on the sidewalk along a row of booths selling farm produce.
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. A group of protestors gather around the doors to the Capitol. One man ho...
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Unveiling of Monona Terrace Plans

Date: 01 23 1961
Description: Helen Groves stands on a chair for a better view of the unveiling of the plans for Monona Terrace to the Auditorium Committee by architect Wesley Peters.
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. A Native American man dressed in traditional clothing walks up the steps...
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Anticipation

Date: 1977
Description: A warmly dressed woman is walking past a display window featuring a mannequin in a one-piece swimsuit. The window has frost on it with a circular opening i...
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Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963

Date: 06 14 1961
Description: Forty-three nursing students in the Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963 begin the two-year clinical phase of their nursing education. ...

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