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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A parade float elaborately decorated with flowers and pulled by four robed horses is traveling west along East Doty Street, with the Central (Fess) Hotel i... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The 125 foot tall Madison water tower stands in the middle of East Washington Avenue. On the right is a large business block occupied by the Amerika Publis... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man walks by the Madison police station, a two-story brick building with corner turret on the corner of South Webster Street. The fire station was across... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The Dane County sheriff's residence, with the county jail behind. A corner of the Dane County Court House is seen on the far left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across street of the front and side of Madison High School. There is a brick walkway in the street in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view east along the north shore of Lake Monona, with Madison's east side industrial area in the background. Tall utility poles and railroad tracks follow... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Power plant machinery in the Wisconsin Power and Light Company substation. |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | The Gas and Electric Utility display at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The site of the Electric Light Plant located near railroad tracks. There is a bell tower with a weather vane on the left. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | New residential construction on the outer southwest edge of Madison. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Panoramic elevated view to the northeast from the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Frank E. Nordeen, a state engineering employee, pointing to the main electric switchboard in the State Capitol building basement, while standing next to an... |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | View of the main copper lines that bring power into the State Capitol building through a tunnel from the state power plant. Four connecting points are visi... |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Leon A. Hendrickson, supervisor of services, pointing to a blower which is used to send air into the tunnel carrying power lines from the state power plant... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Madison in the far distance taken from the third floor of a home at 216 Campbell Street, in University Heights. There is a power line suspended in ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View along the Catfish River, with shrubs and grasses covering the riverbank. On the far left are electrical poles along a dirt road bordering a field that... |
| Date: | 04 05 1961 |
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| Description: | One of the high-voltage towers that intersected Sherman Avenue between Roth Street and Aberg Avenue that was removed to make way for expansion of the North... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at the Automobile Repair Shop with a Good Year Tire sign in the window. Next door on the left is the J.I. McFarland Oldsmobile-C... |
| Date: | 12 11 1925 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using a horse to pull mower along a roadside. He is holding onto the brim of his hat. There is a wooden fence on the left, and three uti... |
| Date: | 03 31 1964 |
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| Description: | Janice Clawson, New Lisbon, second from left, was crowned Miss Wisconsin Rural Electrification at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Rural Electric Cooper... |
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