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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View looking up the 200 block of State Street from West Johnson Street, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction. The bank on the left i... |
| Date: | 04 12 1927 |
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| Description: | View from roof of the steel frame of the Capitol Theatre, located at 211 State Street in it's initial construction. The work was done by J.C. Theilacker Co... |
| Date: | 10 03 1928 |
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| Description: | A crane and other machinery are used in the construction of the Wisconsin Power and Light building, 122 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking south. |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking east. |
| Date: | 06 04 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking northwest. |
| Date: | 06 04 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking southwest. |
| Date: | 08 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking north. |
| 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: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A crane is used in the demolition of City Hall on the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Large mouse being lifted by crane onto Bennett's Table Talk at 211-213 Broadway. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | East Water Street at Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is in the background. At the left is the Waldheim and Company Department Store of 407-411 East Water Stree... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a detail on the Marshall & Ilsley Bank building, under construction. There is a crane on the roof. On the left is the tower of St. John's ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of North and South Harbor Tracts, looking north from South Pier No. 2. There are skyscrapers in the background. there are multiple items of mac... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from across street towards the State Bank at 7-9 S. Pinckney and Washington Avenue. There is an automobile and a pickup truck parked in front of the b... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across Mifflin Street, towards Madison City Hall as it is being demolished. On the street women are walking around the construction to get to the side... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View from East Mifflin Street and the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue towards Manchester's Department Store. The razing of the building is about one fourt... |
| 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... |
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