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Construction Workers at Wisconsin Historical Society

Date: 1899
Description: Workers during the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building.
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On-the-Job Pledging for United Givers Fund

Date: 09 08 1960
Description: Findorff Construction project foreman Paul Thering (left) receives materials and instructions for a new method of United Givers solicitation. Giving out th...
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On-the-Job Pledging for United Givers Fund

Date: 09 09 1960
Description: Construction worker John Ripp (left) receives a pledge card and brochure on United Givers Fund Red Feather services from Findorff Company engineer William ...
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Blasting Contractor

Date: 03 23 1961
Description: John (Cy) Ong, owner and operator of a blasting contracting service, posing with a push-button detonator ready to set off a dynamite blast.
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Masonary Work Continues as Firemen Put Out Fire

Date: 05 03 1962
Description: Employees of the Monona Masonry Company continue to install glass block windows at the Madison Board of Education building, 351 W. Wilson Street, while fir...
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East Side Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 01 29 1964
Description: The framework of the new East Side Evangelical Lutheran Church at 2310 Independence Lane in process of being built. One construction worker is shown at wor...
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Construction on State Historical Society of Wisconsin Headquarters Building

Date: 1967
Description: View from Langdon Street of steelworkers constructing the framework for the addition to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Headquarters building. Pa...
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Razing of Manchester's Department Store

Date: 06 1985
Description: View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ...
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Close-up of carpenters Art Thorstad and George Clark working on the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue.
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Building West Tower of 1 West Wilson Street

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Steel construction workers are standing on exposed beams for the new constriction of the West Tower of the Wisconsin State Office Building at 1 West Wilson...

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