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Madison Gas & Electric Company Power Plant

Date: 08 05 1953
Description: Madison Gas & Electric Company Steam Turbine Station and Substation, 115 South Blount Street, view from South Livingston Street.
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Richmond Indiana City Line Department Truck

Date: 01 24 1928
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck marked "City Line Dept. No.4" Other men raise what appears to be a telephone pole along the side of a...
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Ice Storm

Date: 1922
Description: Winter scene of a Baraboo, Wisconsin, alley after an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and their wires sag under the weight of t...
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Refrigerator Display

Date: 1930
Description: A window display at the Wisconsin Power and Light Company office, 116 Fourth Avenue, features a General Electric refrigerator as "The Gateway to Health" un...
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Theresa Waste Disposal System

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "Theresa Waste Disposal System. Village man, Jim Zillmer, checks out sprinkler system."
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International Truck at Power Plant

Date: 1972
Description: View of a man with a hard hat walking near an International truck parked in front of what appears to be a power plant. The truck is labeled with an "FPL" l...
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City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek

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Description: Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b...
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Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe...
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Children Sledding

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's four children pose with their sleds near Sheridan Road. There is a bridge over a ravine in the background and a blurred image of a dog i...
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Cow Along Road

Date: 1916
Description: A cow, lying outside the fence, observes a car stopped on Sturgeon Bay Road (now Highway 42). Cherry trees bloom inside the fence.
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Candidate Laird

Date: 11 01 1966
Description: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird distributing his campaign literature outside the Marathon Electric plant gate.

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