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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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., landing passengers, taken between 1901 and 1910. Crowds are on riverbank and there are buildings in background. A cr... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Rear elevation of the Johnson Wax Administration Building during construction. Construction sheds and a crane are visible on the building site. The buildin... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Sign for Commuters Bar and Restaurant with the construction of the World Trade Center building in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of west side of N. Water Street between E. Buffalo and E. Chicago Streets, featuring the Joys Building, with a contruction area in foreground... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of the Long Island Railroad. There is a sign on the crane that... |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane with dual hooks, one standard, and the other a magnetic unit, used for unloading train cars... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company half ton single leg gantry crane in a steel operation. There is a driver in a truck beneath the crane, and... |
| Date: | 07 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Construction of a State Office building in the Hill Farms Complex, front facade view. |
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| Description: | Even the slow, dry, hungry engines, digging what would be the best of times, cannot help but leave behind them a restlessness unchanging as bef... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Crane and building materials in the street in front of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. building at 212 Market Street. Two men are standing at the wind... |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai... |
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