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Belmont Hotel Window Painting
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William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows. The Capitol Square grounds and Lake Monona are seen in the background.
June 18, 1952
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Painters on Scaffold
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Two Capital Decorating Company employees on a scaffold painting window frames in the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street. A man can be seen looking out of a window just above the painters.
Capitol Square Panorama
October 28, 1956
View of the South Pinckney Street side of the Capitol Square, one of four images making up a panorama of the southeast side of the Capitol Square. Pictured are the Belmont Hotel, the First National...
Pinckney Street
1954
Elevated view of Pinckney Street, looking northeast from the Wisconsin State Capital. On the right is East Washington Avenue. On the left is the Belmont Hotel. A building near the Belmont Hotel has...
Belmont Hotel
March 3, 1932
Elevated view of the Belmont Hotel, located at the corner of North Pinckney Street and E. Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square.
Safway Steel Scaffold
June 5, 1946
A Safway Steel Scaffold at the Capitol Heat and Power Plant, 624 East Main Street. Safway Steel Scaffolds Company, offices at 940 Williamson Street, is an affiliate of the J.B. Drives Fuel Company.
Belmont Hotel and Pinckney Street
1954
View from Capitol Square Park of the Belmont Hotel and nearby buildings. Includes the storefronts for Simpson's and Rennebohm Drug Store #6, at 19 North Pinckney.
