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Construction of Gisholt Building

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Description: View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unl...
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Construction of Gisholt Building

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Description: View of workers and supervisors during construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant. The floor is covered in plastic. The renovat...
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Findorff Construction Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Construction site of the Wisconsin Power and Light Co. Office Building & Bus Station. The address of the bus station was 122 West Washington Avenue, but th...
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Pouring Cement

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Description: Two men are standing and watching as a construction crew is pouring cement at the Hill Farms State Office Building.
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Camp Randall Stadium

Date: 08 15 1966
Description: Construction site at Camp Randall Stadium. Trucks, cranes, scaffolding and workers are around the outside of the stadium.
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Construction Site with View of the Wisconsin State Capitol

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Description: A State Office Building construction site, downtown, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Two men on the right are working with boards on sawhorses....
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Close-up of carpenters Art Thorstad and George Clark working on the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue.
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Joe Starkey, Herman Crume, and Harley Buelow working on forms for the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue.
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Shovel operator Joe Hermanson in the cab at the new Sears Roebuck store under construction on East Washington Avenue.
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New Findorff Mill

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Description: Elevated group portrait of men posing in front of the J.H. Findorff, Contractor, Planing Mill & Lumber Yard building. A smaller brick building on the far r...
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J.H. Findroff with Hammer

Date: 06 04 1914
Description: Three men are working on the top of a building, putting a wooden structure on top of a brick wall. Stacks of lumber are in the foreground. The top of a bri...
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Group Portrait at Capital City Flour Mill

Date: 05 24 1904
Description: J.H. Findorff bought the Capital City Flour Mill which had been built by Dow and Sons. Caption reads: "On May 24, 1904 J.H. Findorff bought the Capital Cit...
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Three Men Posing Outdoors

Date: 1906
Description: Three men are posing in front of construction materials. The man on the left is holding a hand drill, the man in the center is holding a long saw, and the ...
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Closing the East Entrance

Date: 08 19 1954
Description: View of a worker laying concrete blocks to close off one of the three front entrances to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building. A...
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Madison Hilton Convention Hotel under Construction

Date: 1973
Description: View across Wisconsin Avenue, on the corner of West Dayton, towards the construction of the Madison Hilton Convention Hotel. A sign on the left advertises ...
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Eiffel Tower Replica

Date: 09 17 1964
Description: Pedestrians pass a replica of the Eiffel Tower being constructed by workers at the corner of East Washington and Pinckney Streets on the Capitol Square. Th...
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Installation of an Antenna on the City-County Building

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: A steel worker from Milwaukee attaches a rope to be used to pull an antenna into place on a tower on top of the new City-County Building. The antenna is fo...
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Two Escape as Dirt Jostles House

Date: 06 21 1957
Description: A policeman and a night watchman narrowly escaped injury when a huge mound of excavated dirt fell on a house adjacent to the new State Office building cons...
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Construction of West Tower on West Wilson Street

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Elevated view of the West Tower of the State Office Building at 1 West Wilson Street while it is under construction. Steel vertical and horizontal members,...
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Building West Tower of 1 West Wilson Street

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Steel construction workers are standing on exposed beams for the new constriction of the West Tower of the Wisconsin State Office Building at 1 West Wilson...

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