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| Date: | 04 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Power & Light Company banquet for Veteran employees at the Hotel Loraine. |
| Date: | 04 12 1946 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of linemen and polemen, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, at the Park Hotel. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of bricklayers posing with the tools of their trade in front of an unfinished brick wall at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Note the wooden form for a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
| Date: | 05 1921 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International Model G-61 truck on a rural road with power lines. The truck was operated by G.E. Hutchinson's Standard Oil Company business. |
| Date: | 11 26 1923 |
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| Description: | A group of men dressed in suits, ties and hats watch as the San Francisco Electric Department installs a large wooden electric pole. The Electric Company w... |
| Date: | 04 14 1923 |
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| Description: | An employee operates an International Model G or 61 truck with Mead-Morrison under-slung winch and derrier equipment for the Lowell Electric Lighting Compa... |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the forms for the east shore abutment at the power dam site. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger 30-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane. The stenciling on the crane reads "Pawlin... |
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| Description: | A 60-ton Pawling & Harnischfeger type "AN" bridge crane with 10-ton type "A" trolley's and two hooks at power house for the Metropolitan Street Railway Co.... |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l... |
| Date: | 08 25 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and a cloche hat is standing next to an Orange Crush truck while drinking from a soda bottle. The driver of the truck is sitting be... |
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| Description: | View of the engine room at the Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 18 A partial view of the engine room where the electricity ... |
| Date: | 04 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Man standing on a ladder replacing a light on a residential street. The ladder is extended from the bed of an International truck owned by the Indianapolis... |
| Date: | 01 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men loading pole supports into the back of an International truck owned by the Puget Sound Power and Light Company. In the foreground are railroad tr... |
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