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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A man uses an International RF-190 series truck with a cement mixer platform body while parked in front of a partially built structure. |
| 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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| Description: | View looking down towards the construction site of a dam across a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam across the Black River in 1907. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the construction site of a dam across a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam across the Black River in 1907 to 1909. |
| Date: | 07 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Earth moving equipment excavates for a new state office building complex located both north and south of University Avenue near Segoe Road on the west side... |
| Date: | 08 16 1961 |
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| Description: | Foundations are being poured for the new nine-story Wisconsin State Department of Transportation Building on University Avenue and Segoe Road. |
| Date: | 11 21 1961 |
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| Description: | "Sidewalk superintendent's" view of the excavation for the new Park Motor Inn on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 11 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Demolition of part of the Madison General hospital building to make way for the new psychiatric-rehabilitation wing. |
| Date: | 11 13 1964 |
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| Description: | Men at work on the new 120-foot tower under construction at Tomahawk Ridge, west of Middleton. Blackhawk Ski club members will have their 18th annual ski j... |
| Date: | 12 16 1964 |
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| Description: | View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki... |
| Date: | 05 06 1965 |
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| Description: | Groundbreaking ceremony held for a new $1 million medical center building in the Triangle renewal project at the corner of Park and Regent Streets. Shown (... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Langdon Street of the Wisconsin State Historical Society building under construction in winter with snow on the ground. A group of men... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from ground towards the construction of the dome for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol building. The 1904 fire that destroyed large sections of the t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along top of roof towards the fourth State Capitol building under construction, with erection tower and gin pole behind the girders of the dome substr... |
| Date: | 01 24 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin Hospital under construction. There are construction workers on the roof. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards construction workers working on the first floor of the Eau Claire Public Library at the intersection of Farwell Street and... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at men driving dump trucks and operating a steam shovel and a crane below ground level at a construction site. On the opposite s... |
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