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Atomic Plant Demonstration

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Description: Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant.
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Nuclear Plant Control Room

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Description: The operator of a nuclear plant sits in the control room.
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Penisular Power Company

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Description: Panoramic group portrait of workers, who are building the Penisular Power Company, located on the Brule River.
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Service Truck Stuck in the Snow

Date: 1927
Description: A rural electric service man stuck in the snow while making his rounds during the winter of 1926-1927 despite the fact that his Ford truck was mounted on r...
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Prairie Dells Dam Site

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Description: Two views of the Prairie Dells dam site including the pond, the falls and the power house.
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Snow Plow

Date: 1936
Description: Winter scene with man driving a Model RD-8 La Plant-Choate V-Plow Snow Plow with side extension blades from the front. In the background are power poles.
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The Crawford Farm

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Description: View towards a farm, with farmhouse and barn. A road is on the left of the farmhouse, and a telephone pole is in the foreground. Caption reads: "'The Crawf...
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Panorama of Highway 27, Jackson County

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a curving road, with telephone poles along it. The road leads down a hillside and is lined with fields and groves of trees. Capti...
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Trip East with Aunt Ella

Date: 1926
Description: Elevated view from steep hillside towards a campsite along a road, with a large willow tree in the background behind the tents. Power poles and lines are a...
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Power

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa...
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Heat and Power Laboratory

Date: 1947
Description: Steam turbines in the Heat and Power Lab in the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The lab has large windows an...

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