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| Description: | Elevated view of the St. Paul Ice Carnival; royal family equipages in street parade with crowd lining street. There is a real estate agency and a laundry o... |
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| Description: | St. Paul Ice Carnival, Toboggan Slide in Palace Grounds. View looking up track towards people grouped to the side of toboggan tracks, on stairs, and at the... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Winter scene looking down snow-covered Wisconsin Avenue to the third Wisconsin State Capitol. There are two horse-drawn sleighs, each with one passenger, o... |
| Date: | 01 06 1938 |
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| Description: | South Park Street (Hwy 12 & 14 & 18) looking south from the intersection at Midland Street. On the left across the street is Southside Pharmacy at 1123 Sou... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Building housing the very first central electric light station for distribution of incandescent lighting. The sign on the building reads: "Vulcan St." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A rural electric service man stuck in the snow while making his rounds during the winter of 1926-1927 despite the fact that his Ford truck was mounted on r... |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn snowplow in front of the City Livery, and blanketed horses with sleighs and wagons in the street. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the St. Paul Flax Twine MIll with a railroad track and power lines in the foreground. |
| Date: | 02 06 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior of International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works) with a snow-covered street in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View down business-lined First Avenue. Pedestrians are walking along the street. Caption reads: "Looking Up First Avenue — Fairbanks, Alaska. In The Winter... |
| Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
| Date: | 03 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man posing among the timber pilings near the east shore of the river. Wooden concrete forms and two buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 02 08 1913 |
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| Description: | A winter view with workers posing with brush mats at the power dam construction site. The gate guides and high trestle form the background. |
| Date: | 02 28 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, looking east, of the power house, lock, and dam on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A group of men wearing heavy coats and hats ride on an International truck with snowplow attached. They are driving through heavy snow on a residential str... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of a house to be used in an advertisement for home and subdivision development. The current address of this home is 3736 Sargent Street. |
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| Description: | A mobile home sits alone at the edge of an empty field adjacent to a septic tank and telephone pole. |
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