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| Date: | 04 02 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the early construction of the Capitol Theatre showing the steel frame of the building. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
| Date: | 04 01 1927 |
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| Description: | U.S. Post Office under construction at 215 Monona Avenue. Scaffolding is in place as stone walls and pillars rise on the second floor, in a view of the fro... |
| Date: | 04 26 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men unloading a pane of glass from an International C-300 truck with special streamlined body designed for transporting large panes of plate glass with... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Man in the driver's seat of an International Model F or 31 truck parked in the middle of a city street. The truck was owned by Caldabaugh Bros., proprietor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine Mill under construction at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 19... |
| Date: | 11 09 1941 |
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| Description: | R.F. Lease and Co., 209 East Main Street, floor sanding company trucks, with eleven men standing beside their floor sanders. Other businesses in view: Madi... |
| Date: | 12 23 1936 |
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| Description: | R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Capitol Rock Wool insulation truck parked in front of 309 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 07 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Basement of State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction. Facing East along Wilson showing the Madison Club. |
| Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Four men laying Novoid Corkboard on the roof of the Tenney Building, located at 110 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 05 06 1927 |
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| Description: | "White" dump truck with raised bed. The sign painted on the side of the driver's side door reads: "J. P. Cullen & Son, Contractors." |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Warshaw Construction Corporation crane, during construction of the World Trade Center towers. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Detail of the framework of the World Trade Center during construction. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors at the construction site for the World Trade Center. The construction office has an American flag han... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | The top portion of construction on the World Trade Center, looking past a street lamp post and up into the network of cranes and metal. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards construction workers at the site of the new city hall. William Waters, architect. |
| Date: | 05 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men pouring cement into the forms of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's new seven story building on the corner of West Main Street and Sout... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | C.W. McNally Company building at 197-199 Water Street, located just south of the intersection with Chicago Street. This Greek Revival style building was er... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Weiss-Lippert Pattern Company. A car is parked outside near the curb on the cobblestone street, and a chapel stands to the left. |
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