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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Johnson Wax Research and Development Tower under construction. |
| Date: | 05 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from Park Hotel Roof of the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street. Other West Main Street businesses visible are Madison Bank... |
| Date: | 12 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking southwest from alley toward West Main Street with construction worker in unfinished ba... |
| Date: | 12 28 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north with construction workers in unfinished basement. Also shows side of Wisconsin T... |
| Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north across basement and first floor. Also shows side views of Y... |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north across basement and first floor with part of the second floor under construction... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Construction crew pouring concrete by hand on a bridge on Highway 11 near Browntown. |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison Building and Construction Trades workers signing pledge cards to donate one day's pay (about $12) to Madison War Chest campaign. |
| Date: | 07 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Man standing in flood water at the building under construction for Forsberg Paper Box Company, 2107 Fordem Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Bob Cooper Glass Company, 755 East Washington Avenue, unloading a crate of glass from a company truck at an undisclosed location. |
| Date: | 04 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Meyers measuring the floorboard of his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer to see that it compares exactly with the full-scale plans he drew before starting to... |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Roddy Botts, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Chellis Botts, shown adding a small piece of wood to the body of his 1948 racer. He had the most original design in the... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Yardman Don Hoffman helps Bill Morton pick out plywood for his soap box racer at C.C. Colling Lumber Yard on University Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Monarch Machine Shop at 2530 Pennsylvania Avenue, with metal projects and parts in yard. |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | A low-cost house being built on Midvale Boulevard in Sunset Village on Madison's West Side by builder Marshall Erdman. Erdman's project of four houses is f... |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Interior of a low cost house being constructed for sale to veterans of World War II by builder Marshall Erdman. The project of four houses is being constru... |
| Date: | 10 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Edmund Sternberg house at 4214 Drexel Avenue in Lake Edge Park. Mr. Sternberg quit his job to build the house himself. Mrs. (Violet Pinneke) Sternberg, who... |
| Date: | 11 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Construction scene of the new Naval Armory in the 1000 block of East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of faculty housing project, under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men work on what appears to be International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). |
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