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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Two men are leaning on a fence in the foreground, with other men behind them in a field. Men on scaffolding and ladders are building a barn with a cupola. ... |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch, drawn by Frank Lloyd Wright, possibly of a wooden privacy fence. The sketch shows an elevation and a site plan. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A construction worker wearing a yellow hardhat looks up at the bottom portion of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Foundation built for the lodging house at First Capitol Historic Site. The lodging house was moved and restored in the 1950s. The corner of the Council Ho... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The Lake Forest community plan, a model community that was planned for the site where the University of Wisconsin Arboretum now stands. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly construced kitchen and dining rooms at the construction camp for the dam on the Wisconsin River. The kitchen building has three ventilators on the ro... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction workers posing during construction of the main office at the Wisconsin River dam site. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Completed two-story wood frame main office building at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly poured concrete abutment on the east shore of the Wisconsin River. Iron reinforcing rods protrude from the concrete. Workmen and the steam-driven cem... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
| Date: | 06 10 1911 |
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| Description: | Dining rooms and kitchen at the camp on the construction site of the Prairie du Sac dam. Workers and children pose in front of the dining rooms; there are ... |
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