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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
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Madison Royal Airport Repair Shop

Date: 05 26 1932
Description: The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and ...
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Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
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Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
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Kidder Radio Shop (Panorama, Left Side)

Date: 12 23 1932
Description: Left interior of Kidder Radio Shop, 113 N. Baldwin Street. Shows two men working on radios.
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Kidder Radio Shop (Panorama, Right Side)

Date: 12 23 1932
Description: Right interior of Kidder Radio Shop, 113 N. Baldwin Street. Shows two men working on radios.
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Capital Buick Co. Machine Shop

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: The Capital Buick Co. machine shop, 750 E. Washington Avenue, with two mechanics repairing an automobile.
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Pyrofax Plant

Date: 10 09 1929
Description: Interior of Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking north west.
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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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Concrete Block Machine

Date: 03 12 1929
Description: Concrete block machine as seen from the front, at Madison Silo Co.
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Scale

Date: 06 13 1928
Description: Man weighing a milk can on an old scale at Mt. Horeb Creamery.
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Gardner Bakery

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company, showing men taking Purity Bread from ovens, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
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Winnebago Auto Replacement Company Machine Shop

Date: 04 02 1947
Description: Winnebago Auto Replacement Company, 103 North Park Street. Interior view showing machine shop with five machinists at work.
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Kayser Motor Inc. Stockroom

Date: 05 14 1946
Description: Slightly elevated interior view of the stockroom at Kayser Motor Inc., 701 East Washington Avenue, showing display tables and stocked shelves.
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Kayser Motors Service Control Tower

Date: 02 13 1948
Description: Service control tower in the service department of Kayser's Motors, 701 East Washington Avenue. A service manager is shown in the suspended tower and a tru...
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Kayser Motors Mechanic

Date: 02 13 1948
Description: Kayer Motors mechanic working on servicing a truck. Kayser Motors is located at 701 East Washington Avenue.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Joe Puccio, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian C. Puccio, working with a drill press in the shop of Henry Peiss to construct his soap box racer. The Ne...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Blacksmith Shop

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Description: The interior of the University of Wisconsin-Madison blacksmith shop. A man stands with his hands crossed in the shop, surrounded by various blacksmith impl...
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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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Conklin Ice House Employees

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of Conklin Ice House employees posing on a loading dock in front of the ice house on Lake Mendota. Wagons are parked on the left and...

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