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Turn of the Century Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con...
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Installing Rock-Wool Insulation

Date: 12 10 1934
Description: Two men and Home Insulation of Madison, Inc. truck in front of W.J. Sheppard, 2524 Chamberlain Avenue, house, shown installing Johns Manville rock-wool ins...
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Silent Glow Oil Burner Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Sales personnel pose in the Silent Glow oil burner booth with an oil burning kitchen stove, furnaces, and portable styles of oil burners at the Dane Count...
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Imogene Boggs

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss Imogene Boggs, membership chairman of the Business and Professional Women's Club, standing next to her truck. She was the owner of the Suburban Gas an...
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Group Portrait of Employees of Regal Products, Ltd.

Date: 02 21 1948
Description: Group portrait of fourteen employees standing at the front door of the Regal Products, Ltd. at Gays Mills. E. Tex Reddick is the company president.
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Buffalo Street Pipe Installation

Date: 10 1914
Description: Buffalo Street construction, showing heating pipes being installed under the cut pavement. A boy is bent over in near a pile of dirt in the background look...
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Man in Metro Truck near The Sievert Corp.

Date: 05 1949
Description: Man in driver's seat inside International Metro truck parked outside the Sievert Corp.
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Ventilation Fans

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: Three men stand near ventilation fans for cementing machines on the roof of Building #3.
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Brandes Heating Company Explosion and Fire

Date: 06 10 1958
Description: Police and spectators watch as firemen battle a blaze at Brandes Heating Co., 2046 Winnebago Street.
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Heating Plant on a Cold Day

Date: 02 22 2015
Description: View of Charter Street Heating and Cooling Plant from North Mills Street. White smoke is billowing out of the stacks against a clear, blue sky. The streets...
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Electric Furnace on Truck Bed

Date: 09 03 1927
Description: Three-quarter view of right side of truck. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and the bed of the truck has a striped awning over the top of the truck b...
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A Big 'Pipe Job'

Date: 05 27 1959
Description: It takes a special "plumber" to put together pipes the size of these being installed in the heating tunnel under construction on N. Charter Street to carry...

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