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| 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: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View from East Mifflin Street and the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue towards Manchester's Department Store. The razing of the building is about one fourt... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a bearded man with vest and suit posing on a narrow gauge railroad at the granite works in Montello. Workmen are posing around him. Most of ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from ground towards the construction of the dome for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol building. The 1904 fire that destroyed large sections of the t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along top of roof towards the fourth State Capitol building under construction, with erection tower and gin pole behind the girders of the dome substr... |
| Date: | 01 24 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin Hospital under construction. There are construction workers on the roof. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards construction workers working on the first floor of the Eau Claire Public Library at the intersection of Farwell Street and... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees towards the Wisconsin State Capitol during construction of the dome. The wing in the foreground is the new west wing. The old nort... |
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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... |
| Date: | 06 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Two 7-cylinder Comet engines assembled with cams are set up on a factory floor. Supported in opposing engine stands vertically and horizontally, they are u... |
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| Description: | View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin... |
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| Description: | Eleven men are standing during a groundbreaking ceremony in front of a Findorff crane. Two men are holding shovels. The sign painted on the crane reads: "F... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| Description: | Construction site at Camp Randall Stadium. Trucks, cranes, scaffolding and workers are around the outside of the stadium. |
| Date: | 06 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Madison East High School construction site. The sign on the left reads: "East High School, J.H. Findorff & Son Builders, Frank Riley, Architect." The sign ... |
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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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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of a mining operation. Men are posing on the head frame/gallows frame over the pit. One man is perching on the top of the g... |
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| Description: | René Clair and an unidentified man during the making of the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." Both men are behind a movie camera perched on a crane. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cast and crew filming a scene from the 1944 film "It Happened Tomorrow." The set recreates apartment rooftops. Studio lights are above the... |
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