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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of various businesses on unpaved Main Street, including a drug store on the right side. Caption reads: "Main Street, Grantsburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A billboard displays events at the foot of Bascom Hill from the bottom east side on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Bascom Hall with dome (form... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river toward the power plant, along with a bridge, trees, and smokestacks. Caption reads: "Water Power, Fox River, Appleton, Wis." |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Stone Street. A car is parked in front of an auto repair store. Electric power lines run down the street, and a water tower is in ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the dam and power plant over the river, with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "The Dam, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Stanley Hotel on a corner, with large electricity poles on the sidewalk in front. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A car is parked in front of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with trees, a street sign and power lines. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Charcoal kiln in ruins in a field beyond a fence, with electric power lines in the background. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of the Buena Vista House with electric power lines. This Greek revival inn was erected in 1843 by Samuel R. Bradley of Milwaukee, who is said to have ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam and the power plant. A railroad bridge is in the upper left. Three smokestacks are in the background. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A lane in Ephraim with power lines lining the road. There is a body of water in the distance with houses on the far shoreline. |
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| Description: | Waterwheel for generating electric power, with men sitting on the log support. It may be the largest in the nation. The waterwheel was built in 1924 by a c... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of lower Main Street lined with electric power lines and storefronts. Caption reads: "Lower Main Street, Fort Atkinson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a Madison Gas and Electric steam plant. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street when it was a dirt road. A church is in the background, and telephone poles are along the left side of the road. A streetlight is hangi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the tower of the Northern Hydro-Electric Power Company on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View from Tower of Northern Hydro-El... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Intersection of Janesville Plan and North Cape Road, with telephone poles lining North Cape Road and cars parked on the side of Schunbrino's Saloon. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | The Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam. |
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