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| Date: | 11 03 1936 |
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| Description: | House at 2135 Linden Avenue, under construction by Fitzpatrick Lumber Co. |
| Date: | 10 29 1934 |
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| Description: | New employees dormitory under construction at Lake View Sanitorium. |
| Date: | 04 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Steve Schmidt house under construction in Sherman Park subdivision. The house is located at 1406 Farragut Street. |
| Date: | 07 10 1929 |
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| Description: | Construction of Capital Buick Co. garage, 754 E. Washington Avenue at N. Livingston Street. |
| Date: | 03 28 1929 |
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| Description: | A crane at work on the First Congregational Church, located at 1609 University Avenue at the corner of North Breese Terrace. |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north, with steam shovel and other equipment. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. John... |
| Date: | 08 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of the framework of a large building under construction next to a house in Corliss. |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction workers placing rebar in the foundation of a house in preparation for concrete to be poured. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men work to level the ground for foundations to be poured for homes. Exposed brick walls of partially constructed homes are on the left and right, and a di... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the Eugene & Mary Van Tamelen House, 5817 Anchorage Avenue, an example of Erdman #1, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed prefabricated home marketed... |
| Date: | 08 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Two men construct an addition to Mr. Jack Myers' house on Washington Island. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dredging operations at the mouth of Bear Creek in Canada. Caption reads: "Dredging Operations at the Mouth of Bear Creek, Dawson, Y.T." |
| Date: | 06 18 1952 |
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| Description: | William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows... |
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| Description: | Alternative view of the Van Tamlen House, an example of Erdman #1, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed prefabricated home marketed by Marshall Erdman. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lumber, wheelbarrows, a screen for sifting sand, and portions of scaffolding clutter the area around a new addition to the rear of the Hotz residence. Ther... |
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| Description: | Men posed demolishing one house and building another on the same property, possibly the R.P. Ravey property. Two boys and a girl are posed standing in the ... |
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| Description: | Two men on a scaffold inside the Werner Opera House. Advertisements for local merchants are on the stage curtain, and there is an upright piano in the fore... |
| Date: | 09 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Construction site of the University of Wisconsin Holt dormitory on Elm Drive. |
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