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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Construction on Mount Rushmore. Scaffolding is visible across Abraham Lincoln's face. Work has just begun on Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Men and women working on the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man shaping birch bark in a frame during the process of making a canoe. |
| 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: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards construction workers at the site of the new city hall. William Waters, architect. |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. |
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| Description: | Team of horses powering a winch and moving a frame building. Before the flood of 1911, moving the Express building from the northeast corner of Main and Se... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
| 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 filling in Main Street after the 1911 flood. Forms are probably for the basement of the Cozy Corner Tavern. |
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| Description: | Men working on the passage of Town Creek under First Street, one-half block north of Main Street. |
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| Description: | Men working on the passage of Town Creek under First Street, one-half block north of Main Street. |
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| Description: | Men working on the bulkhead above the powerhouse and the powerhouse flume. |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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| Description: | Men constructing a building, or laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam, using steam-powered machinery in front of the Merchants Hotel... |
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| Description: | Men building the post-flood business district dam. The flood of 1911 went around the Black River Falls Dam and washed out most of the business section of t... |
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