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W.J. Hyland Plumbing Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Ford truck of Madison plumber W.J. Hyland parked outdoors.
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Railroad Depot

Date: 1925
Description: Railroad depot taken as part of a survey by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company to promote economic development by emphasizing available buildings and bu...
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Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
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Erecting Pile Driver for Railroad Extension to Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon...
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Pile Driver at Work on Railroad Extension from Prairie du Sac to Dam Site

Date: 04 1911
Description: Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th...
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Railroad Trestle at Dam Construction

Date: 08 15 1911
Description: Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible...
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Beginning of High Water at Power Dam

Date: 10 07 1911
Description: Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad...
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High Water at Prairie du Sac Dam

Date: 10 11 1911
Description: Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f...
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Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Southern Boundary

Date: 1942
Description: View looking East toward the proposed south boundary fence line of International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. A railroad track and car are on the ...
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Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Fenceline

Date: 04 29 1942
Description: View down railroad tracks towards approaching trains. Men are walking across the tracks in the foreground at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Ars...
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Chicago, Northwestern Railroad Tracks

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Description: View of Chicago, Northwestern Railroad set of two railroad tracks at Devil's Lake, chartered in 1859. To the right, power lines run the length of the Devil...
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Carnation Milk Products Company Plant

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Description: Exterior view of the Carnation Milk Products Company plant as seen from across railroad tracks.
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Main Street

Date: 1913
Description: View down of Main Street, which is a dirt street passing through the central business district of the town, featuring several storefronts with porches and ...
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Electric Wires and Railroad Tracks

Date: 03 1928
Description: Power lines along both sides of railroad tracks running through a rural area.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: This map shows railroads, counties, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, and electric lines are shown in Wisconsin, the western portion of Michigan's Upper ...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Ashland

Date: 06 1923
Description: A Sanborn map of Ashland.
Map or Atlas

Caspar's New Automobile Road Map of Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois : Including from Lake Michigan the Territory of 200 Miles North and 100 Miles West

Date: 1918
Description: This map shows counties, cities, towns, villages, summer resorts, lakes, rivers, creeks, wagon roads, roads, railroads, and electric lines. The authentic a...
Map or Atlas

Douglas County, Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: This map shows roads, railroads, street railways, abandoned logging railroads, rural mail routes, telephone lines, schools, platted land, and state forest ...
Photograph

Steam Locomotive

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Description: View alongside railroad tracks looking towards an approaching steam locomotive. In the background on the right is a power plant with smokestacks.
Photograph

Railroad Near Power Plant

Date: 1940
Description: View across empty field towards railroad tracks. In the far background is a water tower next to a power plant.

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