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State Street from Bascom Hill
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View of State Street looking east towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill (on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus). The Wisconsin Historical Society is in the left foreground.
1971
Schmiedeke, Justin (Chet)
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WHi 51707
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