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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
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Men Delivering Milk to Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Two men deliver milk in cans to a creamery from the back of a milk truck.
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Madison Airport and Midwest Air Transport Airplanes

Date: 06 21 1930
Description: Midwest Air Transport planes in front of the hangar at the Madison Airport. Located northeast of the city near the Oscar Mayer plant, the field was someti...
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Solvit Chemical Co. Sign at Entrance Door

Date: 08 31 1939
Description: Solvit Chemical Co. sign nailed across two doors numbered 107 & 105, sign says: "Keep Out, Badger 4717 — Madison, Wis., 'Poison Gas' Fumigation."
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Roth Coal Silos

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: Five coal silos at C.E. and P.A. Roth Inc., sand and gravel company, at 1208 Roth Street.
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Roth Coal Silos

Date: 05 22 1936
Description: Wide angle view of 5 coal silos at C.E. and P.A. Roth Inc., sand and gravel company, 1208 Roth Street.
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Green & Company Truck

Date: 04 30 1936
Description: Three men loading seed sacks into Green & Company Ford semi-trailer truck at Olds Seed Co. loading dock, 722 Williamson Street. Sign on truck reads: "Green...
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Olds Seed Company Trucks

Date: 01 29 1936
Description: Three men loading two L.L. Olds Seed Co. trucks with out-going mail, at 722 Williamson Street.
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Airplanes Parked at Royal Airport

Date: 05 26 1932
Description: At Royal Airport, a line of airplanes are parked in a row in a field. In the background is a hangar with automobiles parked nearby.
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Airplanes at Madison Airport

Date: 06 14 1930
Description: View from building towards five airplanes, parked in a line outdoors, at Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North Street and Kedzie Street.
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Pyrofax Plant

Date: 09 1929
Description: View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished.
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Pyrofax Plant

Date: 09 1929
Description: View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished.
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Workers at Lyons Turkey Farm

Date: 11 1947
Description: Female workers on the production line at Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, plucking turkeys.
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Lyons Turkey Farm Maintenance Workers

Date: 11 1947
Description: Men scalding turkeys to remove feathers in the production area at the Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona.
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Aerial View of Downtown Sun Prairie

Date: 10 1928
Description: Aerial view of Sun Prairie, including the central business district, residences, and the surrounding countryside stretching to the horizon.
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Man, Dog and Chickens

Date: 03 03 1947
Description: Irvin Thompson with Andy, a chicken retrieving dog, placing an escaped chicken into a crate at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, 633 West Doty Street...
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Farmall Tractor

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Farmall Tractor outside the Kupfer Foundry and Iron Works, 101 Waubesa Street. Photograph taken for R.L. Kulzick advertising agency.
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Standard Seed Company

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Description: Standard Seed Company located at 732 Williamson Street, built in 1898. The company moved to 653 West Washington Avenue in 1940.
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Red Dot Potato Chip Workers

Date: 1939
Description: A group portrait of female workers at the Red Dot Potato Chip Company. Fourth from the left in the top row is Vivian Harrison Matheson, identified by Ellis...
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Middleton Farmer's Co-op

Date: 03 1981
Description: View from parking lot of side of building at the southwest corner of Aurora and Elmwood Avenue. Other buildings are in the background.

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