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| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
| Date: | 10 20 1928 |
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| Description: | View of the Stone Crushing Plant on Hwy #27 near Soldiers Grove. |
| Date: | 05 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Truck-mounted Catepillar engine/compressor parked at Albert W. Gallagher Quarry on Highway 51 near the airport. The photograph was taken for Nagle-Hart Tra... |
| Date: | 10 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a colony of squatters in Sunset Point (Hoyt Park, Quarry Park), former quarry site. Home of John & Lottie Corcoran from 1924-1994. |
| Date: | 05 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit with conveying equipment. |
| Date: | 05 04 1929 |
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| Description: | View from the east towards the Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit, showing conveying equipment. |
| Date: | 10 20 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the stone crushing plant of the Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Company on Highway 27 near Soldiers Grove, showing a truck being filled with... |
| Date: | 04 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Crushing and Loading equipment at a gravel pit. |
| Date: | 04 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Crushing and Loading equipment at gravel pit. |
| Date: | 04 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Crushing and loading machinery at a gravel pit. |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | A.M. Mickelson, 10 N. Owen Dr., inspecting the scene of the explosion at the base of Sunset point where three Madison boys were badly burned while playing ... |
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| Description: | Sand quarrying in German Hill to obtain fill for use in the business district after a flood. Steam shovel in use. |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 08 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the completed power house and dam, looking east at the north, or upstream, side of the structure. On the far shore, the site of the gravel... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bill Baker standing on top of a wall of the quarry on Basswood Island. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, from the west, of the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. Gravel from the quarry was used in concrete for the construction of the power plant and dam. |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne... |
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