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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The corner of State and Fairchild Streets showing Yost-Kessnich's and the Capitol Theatre under construction. |
| Date: | 05 02 1927 |
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| Description: | View of Madison businesses on Henry Street, with steel frame construction of the Capitol Theatre in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at workers at work below street level, with cranes and International trucks excavating area for the future New York City subway. On the r... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers are looking on as a Bucyrus Erie excavating crane is loading dirt into the bed of an International heavy-duty dump truck. |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers are removing dirt for the construction of the New York City subway with a Bucyrus shovel loader and an International truck. The workers are below s... |
| Date: | 10 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Workmen inside a new corridor addition under construction in the State Bank of Wisconsin, 1 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 10 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers posing on the balcony of the State Bank of Wisconsin addition under construction, 1 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 08 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel operators excavate for the construction of the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium boiler house at 1202 Northport Drive. |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north with steam shovel. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. Johnson Street, and Holy ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | The Orpheum Theatre under construction, 216 State Street, looking east at back side of buildings on State Street, with construction workers, truck and stea... |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | A man stands on makeshift scaffolding while hammering a nail into a door awning. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extens... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Wooden scaffolding surrounds a silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm. A barn stands next to the silo, painted with a sign that says: "Inter... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Construction workers pose at the entrance of the public school during construction. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The new school building during construction, next to the old school building, which has a bell tower on the roof. A man works in the yard on the left near ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Children play on makeshift seesaws created from construction materials outside the old schoolhouse. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Winter view of new poured concrete bridge supports and scaffolding in a wooded ravine along Sheridan Road. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of construction of the New Free bridge. Men work on and below the wooden bridge, which is partially constructed. A crane is on the bri... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the building under construction, with two men working on the side of the log building on wooden scaffolds. This is probably on the site of... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | This blueprint map shows streets, industrial, and public buildings in the vicinity of harbor. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of the Circus Maximus set under construction for the 1925 film "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ." Scaffolding and piles of dirt are around the set. |
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