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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair. |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men pose next to a silo that is under construction, with wood scaffolding around it. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring the International T-20, T-35, TD-35, T-40 and TD-40 crawler tractors (TracTracTors). Includes the text: "when you need crawler... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International crawler tractors (TracTracTors), featuring the TD-35. Includes illustrations of workers using crawler tractors in road... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | International D500 Paydozer and 295 Payscraper moving earth on a job site. The machines were manufactured by Hough, the construction equipment subsidiary o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | St. Josaphat's Church in Milwaukee under construction. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Construction workers are posed in front of the partially-built St. Josaphat's Church on scaffolding and wooden steps near large columns. There are two chil... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men in the midst of dam construction. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from across road of Baxter House, a two-story wooden structure. A man is sitting on the roof working on the chimney. A bell tower is seen behind the r... |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Edgewood fence along Wingra Drive entrance, which had been opened to the public after closing by the Dominican Sisters of Edgewood Academy. Shown is the ro... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ... |
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| Description: | Men working in a drained reservoir with shovels, probably at the Hatfield Dam. |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison Building and Construction Trades workers signing pledge cards to donate one day's pay (about $12) to Madison War Chest campaign. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man operating an International dump truck near the Standard Glass Company on La Salle Street, possibly in Chicago. |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with a crawler track and a Monarch loader. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction worker Buddis Stone at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam along the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Stone bored holes for expl... |
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