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Lappley Bros. Lumberyard

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Description: Winter view of exterior of Lappley Bros. Lumberyard and Feed Mill.
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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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Truax Hospital Heating Building

Date: 01 22 1943
Description: Hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field, from the west side.
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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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Cake of Ice

Date: 04 28 1931
Description: Large cake of clear ice made by Oscar Mayer Co., sitting on the loading dock at the Oscar Mayer Co. Also shows open back door of truck.
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Fiore Coal and Oil Storage Tanks

Date: 12 26 1930
Description: Three Fiore Coal and Oil storage tanks.
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United States Sugar Company Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks on Atwood Avenue. The building was occupied in 1980 by Garver Feed & Suppl...
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Cities Service Oil Company Explosion

Date: 12 29 1944
Description: Man standing on bulk tanks at Cities Service Oil Company Plant, 815 East Main Street, where an explosion killed welder Harold Michelson.
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Railway Barn

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Description: A wintery view of the Southern Wisconsin Railway Company car barn.
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Fair Ground Buildings Reflected in Water

Date: 03 24 1962
Description: Fair ground buildings, closed and boarded up for the winter.
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Greyhound Bus in the Snow

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Description: A Greyhound Cruiser is parked in the snow, waiting for parts at the Greyhound station on Brearly Street where Lewis Arms was employed. Arms called this one...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

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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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Conklin Ice House

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Description: Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. A man is standing in the snow-covered yard in the foreground near a sleigh, and a carriage with a sign painted on the si...
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Harvesting Ice

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Description: View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we...
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Harvesting Ice on Lake Mendota

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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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Rephotographic Pair: Garver Feed and Supply Company and U.S.

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Description: A modern view of the Garver Feed and Supply Company and a vintage view of the same building when it was the U.S. Sugar Company, presented as a pair. There ...
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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

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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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Japanese Tea Pavilion

Date: 02 1970
Description: Japanese Tea Pavilion with an Oriental Ground Lantern and "Closed Abstraction in White" in Sid's backyard. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background.

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