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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The sewage disposal plant showing the settling basins and colloidal. The main pumping station for the sewage was situated near the Chicago, Milwaukee and S... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Madison City Water Works pumping station at the intersection of Gorham and Livingston which provided pressure to the city's mains. A group of people st... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dam and power station on a river. Two automobiles are parked in a lot in the lower left corner. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Workmen with the City Line Department use an International Model 63 truck to erect a power line or telephone pole near a bridge. |
| Date: | 04 09 1935 |
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| Description: | N.M. Ulsch, assistant superintendent and bookkeeper, sits at a desk in the Street Cleaning Department of the City of Jacksonville offices. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company building, located at 122 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 12 14 1976 |
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| Description: | View of Lake Mendota and shoreline from University Bay Drive. Snow covers the lake and the shore. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background. |
| Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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| Description: | A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The brick, Italianate style Fox House hotel in Columbus. There are brackets under the overhang and a large belvidere. A sign on the building advertises Coc... |
| Date: | 01 24 1928 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck marked "City Line Dept. No.4" Other men raise what appears to be a telephone pole along the side of a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A wooden chest with a sign "[illegible] Cement Work" stands on West Dayton Street near its intersection with Wisconsin Avenue. There is a bucket nearby, an... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha... |
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