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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men sharpening tools from the back of an International C-5 truck equipped with a special body and grinding equipment. The truck was owned by Pacific Sa... |
| Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 05 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Four men are looking on during installation of a billboard designed by Hinkson Advertising Agency, at the corner of S. Park Street and Olin Avenue. The sig... |
| Date: | 11 25 1933 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Boy Scouts and adult leaders armed with tacks, hammers and posters to promote the sale of Christmas Seals. |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 09 07 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | German farmers pulling a wooden log with a McCormick D-435 tractor against a mountainous backdrop in Alpine country. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. |
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| Description: | Team of horses powering a winch and moving a frame building. Before the flood of 1911, moving the Express building from the northeast corner of Main and Se... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ... |
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| Description: | A police officer sitting on a stool in a woodshop. |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building. |
| Date: | 10 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor applies a trowel of fresh cement to a base for the cornerstone of the new Queen of Apostles seminary, 5810 Cottage Grove Road. L... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of people decorating the Garden Queen float for a Fourth of July parade near a large garage. The float reads "Greendale-The Garden City," "Pop. 2800"... |
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