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| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | Charles Henriksen, Baraboo, is shown laying floor tile in the new Samuel Gompers Elementary School under construction at 1502 Wyoming Way on the northeast ... |
| Date: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Jerry Clarke, 217 Division Street, an employee of the Olson Glass Company, 625 Williamson Street, sprays a pane of glass with window cleaner before install... |
| Date: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Jerry Clarke, 217 Division Street, and William Frosch, 1134 Pauline Street, employees of Olson Glass Company, 625 Williamson Street, install a glass pane i... |
| Date: | 10 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz... |
| Date: | 12 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Unloading oats at the Stock Pavillon. In front a man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon near a tractor powering a grain elevator. |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street. |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 08 03 1957 |
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| Description: | "Wisconsin" - the statue atop the State Capitol building's dome. A painter is hanging from the statue's neck by a climbing rope, pulleys, and a bench while... |
| Date: | 01 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Paul Byrge making molds for ceramic figures at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street. |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | View looking down at Paul Dawalt, 746 Dunning Street, spends a spring day removing storm windows and installing screens at his home. He is climbing a ladde... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | A steel worker from Milwaukee attaches a rope to be used to pull an antenna into place on a tower on top of the new City-County Building. The antenna is fo... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Successful relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Hos... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, preparing the new concrete foundation for the "Blue Dragon Urn," which was relocated from Sid Boyum's backyard to the pu... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
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| Description: | Findorff Lumber & Supply Company Truck #4. Two men are loading or unloading supplies. |
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| Description: | View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin c... |
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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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| 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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