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| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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| Description: | High water on the Wisconsin River has submerged the coffer dam and trestle. Two pile drivers remain in place. Log pilings are floating near the western sh... |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) lifts dirt into a dump truck. Original caption reads: "An International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTor equipped w... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the 9/11 Ground Zero site viewing the damage to the World Trade Center. Behind Obey is the World Financial Center co... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, wearing a blue shirt, is standing in the foreground. Behind him, also in a blue shirt, is Florida Congressman Bill You... |
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| Description: | View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site, with wreckage behind a wooden wall. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 f... |
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| Description: | Left side view of a man operating a 500 Pay Dozer. The trees and ground in the background are black, and there is smoke. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men standing outdoors and looking at a map. Behind them is a dump truck and a loader/backhoe. In the background is a city s... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of man driving TD-9. Subject: "TD-9 — Road Building." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Mason Brod., Houston, T... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-9 — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Mason Bros., Houston, Texas. TD-9 used with BE dozers and ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Mason Bros., Houston, Texas. TD-9 used with BE dozers and... |
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