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| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | View from unpaved Wisconsin Avenue looking east toward the third Wisconsin State Capitol sometime prior to the completion of the dome (1869). The portion o... |
| Date: | 09 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking towards a chain link fence and gate surrounding the plant. R... |
| Date: | 10 09 1929 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & North Western Railroad Bucyrus crane installing a large tank at a Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company Pyrofax plant, at 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View across W. Johnson Street towards the back side of the Orpheum Theater under construction at 216 State Street. The house beside the theater on the left... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A building site at 11 West Main Street, next to Gamm's Jewelry Store and Cop's Cafe. Power lines are in the alley in the background. |
| Date: | 07 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified "sidewalk superintendents" observe the excavation for the new Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig Company building being constructed on the North Carr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men use teams of horses to excavate a lot to be used as the site for the future McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Men working on the reconstruction of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison) after the 1904 fire. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of work site near the church building. |
| Date: | 04 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Image shows an empty lot on the 400 block of State Street across from Ella's Deli (425 State Street). In the lot are remnants of basement walls and brick r... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sid Boyum's background taken from the second floor of his house. There is a large arch in the center with wind chimes hanging on it. Shrub... |
| Date: | 05 15 1914 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men in and around a trench at a construction site. There is a retaining wall above the trench on the hill on the right. Another f... |
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