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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of various businesses on unpaved Main Street, including a drug store on the right side. Caption reads: "Main Street, Grantsburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A billboard displays events at the foot of Bascom Hill from the bottom east side on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Bascom Hall with dome (form... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "Hearthstone," a house built in 1880-1882 by paper mill owner Henry J. Rogers, was the first residence electrified from a centrally located hydroelectric p... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Stanley Hotel on a corner, with large electricity poles on the sidewalk in front. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A car is parked in front of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with trees, a street sign and power lines. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Charcoal kiln in ruins in a field beyond a fence, with electric power lines in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a Madison Gas and Electric steam plant. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street when it was a dirt road. A church is in the background, and telephone poles are along the left side of the road. A streetlight is hangi... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | The Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Co., built in 1914. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Co., built in 1914. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down Cedar Street. Caption reads: "Cedar Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down hill toward two cars passing each other along the Lincoln Highway near Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Lincoln Highway was conceived in 1912 by Carl F... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Composite of views of Muscoda including: Electric Light plant, Smalley House, St. John Catholic Church, Lover's Lane, Muscoda Public School, Wisconsin Aven... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox River with power plants and paper mills. Caption reads: "Water Power Plants, Neenah, Wis." |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Prairie du Sac hydroelectric plant and the surrounding landscape of the Wisconsin River. |
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