Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The Madison City Water Works pumping station at the intersection of Gorham and Livingston which provided pressure to the city's mains. A group of people st... |
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Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
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Description: | Elevated view towards a lineman sitting in a suspended seat, possibly stringing telephone line. There is an automobile parked near a brick building across ... |
Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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Description: | A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ... |
Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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Description: | Police officers and company employees stand on the roof of the Wisconsin Power and Light Building, 122 West Washington Avenue, where M.C. Alexander of 303 ... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | View from across street of a shirtless young man standing beside an automobile in the shade of a lean-to attached to the old Ringling Hotel. Signs on the t... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A view of the Second Empire style Park Hotel at the corner of South Carroll and West Main Streets. There are horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and a smal... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha... |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond. |
Date: | 02 24 1978 |
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Description: | "Theresa Waste Disposal System. Village man, Jim Zillmer, checks out sprinkler system." |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Exterior of the Eastman power plant. Two children pose on a metal cylinder outside the plant. The text on the photograph reads, "The Best electric light pl... |
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Description: | Outdoor view of men working at a construction site. Identified as the construction of the third powerhouse, which also entailed moving the second powerhous... |
Date: | 06 30 1965 |
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Description: | Steam pipe construction along Langdon street east of Park street. The corner of the Wisconsin Historical Society is on the left. Science Hall is in the bac... |
Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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Description: | Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr... |
Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The printed inscription identifies this scene, "Looking South on Main Street, Montello, Wis." A woman is standing on the sidewalk at left near a parked bug... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | A cabinet card photograph of the Montello House Hotel. The two-story brick building has a gable fronted wing on the right and a shingled wooden tower on th... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Leonore Middleton, center left, is posing standing along a bridge railing wearing a long winter coat and hat. Other people in traditional Japanese attire a... |
Date: | 07 1936 |
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Description: | View down street towards two buildings in the background that are part of the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, makers of Mirro cookware. The buildings... |
Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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Description: | Two Madison Gas and Electric Company workmen checking pipes on Main Street in downtown Madison after two gas blasts and fires rocked downtown Madison, kill... |
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