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Lumber Camp Employees and Lumber

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Description: Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber.
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Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

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Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
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Interior of Battery Factory

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Description: French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant.
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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Allis-Chalmers Company

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Description: Plate Steel Spiral Casing for 70,000 horse-power Niagara Falls hydraulic turbine unit at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company erecting shop. The castin...
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Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville...
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Tire Factory Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi...
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Downriver from Grand Avenue Bridge

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Description: Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge.
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Reliance Iron Works Interior

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Description: Interior of the Reliance Iron Works.
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Two Men Shaking Hands

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Description: Two men shaking hands while working to complete structural steel work on the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1429: Running The Portage Bridge

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Description: Stereograph of a man standing on the back of a raft holding a hand-hewned oar. The raft is passing under a wooden bridge. A town, including a church, are i...
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City of Madison Water Well No. 4

Date: 02 25 1932
Description: Interior of pumphouse for City of Madison well no. 4, 5 N. Randall Avenue, showing the Electric Machinery Co. motor driven by Sullivan angle compound air c...
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Pyrofax Plant

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, view looking south west.
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Capitol Theatre Under Construction

Date: 03 01 1927
Description: Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. American Bridge Co. on beams, and an Esser's City Market delivery truck.
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Capitol Theatre Under Construction

Date: 08 03 1927
Description: Indoor view of the Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street, under construction. View from stage toward the balcony.
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Capitol Theatre Under Construction

Date: 10 03 1927
Description: View from balcony of the Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street, under construction.
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Capitol Theatre Under Construction

Date: 10 03 1927
Description: Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction, showing ceiling construction under the roof.
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Capitol Theatre

Date: 04 02 1927
Description: Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street, under construction. The view is from the northwest corner toward northeast corner. American Bridge Co. sign is on the...
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Capitol Theatre Under Construction

Date: 12 02 1926
Description: Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, with the foundation excavation as seen from Kruse's Store looking toward Dayton Street.
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Capitol Theatre Under Construction

Date: 12 02 1926
Description: Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street. View of the foundation excavation looking from the construction house toward State Street.

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