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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
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U.S. Sugar Company

Date: 1924
Description: Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory.
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Madison Industrial District

Date: 12 14 1931
Description: Aerial view of Madison industrial district taken from the top of the Madison Gas and Electric Co. gas tank looking south west down the 600 and 700 blocks o...
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Concrete Chimney Experiment

Date: 1926
Description: Concrete chimney experiment at the University of Wisconsin.
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Chimneys

Date: 08 04 1926
Description: Concrete chimney (model) under construction, U.W. Mining Engineering Building.
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Power Plant

Date: 06 20 1961
Description: Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokes...
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Mill on Yahara River

Date: 1890
Description: View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi...
Drawing

House with Fence

Date: 08 1885
Description: Pencil on paper; wood clapboard house behind fallen fence with open gate. Three trees, small outbuilding with one-sided roof, a large tub and other equipm...
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University of Wisconsin- Madison

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of campus up University Avenue from the tower of the First Congregational Church on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Wisconsin...
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Lake Monona and Madison's East Side

Date: 1905
Description: A view east along the north shore of Lake Monona, with Madison's east side industrial area in the background. The Deering Harvester Company is identified b...
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Lake Monona and Madison's East Side

Date: 1905
Description: A view east along the north shore of Lake Monona, with Madison's east side industrial area in the background. Tall utility poles and railroad tracks follow...
Print

Wisconsin Music Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Music Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with two elevated views of the Cable Company's Chicago and St. Charles piano and organ fac...
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Sun Prairie Canning Company

Date: 1912
Description: View from railroad tracks towards the back of the canning company. There are freight cars parked near the loading dock. Two smokestacks are behind the buil...
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Panorama of Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Panoramic elevated view to the northeast from the Capitol Square.
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Air-Lec Automatic Swing Door Opener

Date: 1922
Description: Outdoor view of an Air-Lec automatic door opener for swinging doors set up on a wood plank on a rooftop. Probably the top of Schoelkopf's manufacturing pla...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
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Harvesting Ice on Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: View across ice on Lake Mendota towards men using long poles to maneuver ice up to the conveyor belt to the Conklin Ice House.
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Heating Plant

Date: 01 2014
Description: Two smokestacks of a power plant with clouds of exhaust being released into the sky on a cold day.
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Underpass

Date: 01 2014
Description: Smokestacks rising over a short underpass, billowing exhaust. Snow is covering the side of the pass and the ground on the other side.
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Billowing Steam from Wisconsin Power and Light

Date: 
Description: High humidity and low temperatures cause massive steam clouds to billow from the stacks of Wisconsin Power and Light Company behind a house on Jenifer Stre...

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