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Man with Gilt Edge Liberty Furnace

Date: 1920
Description: A man holding a cigar stands near a Gilt Edge Liberty furnace. The R.J. Schwab and Sons Co. in Milwaukee sold Liberty and Pipeless furnaces for over fifty ...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Heating Plant

Date: 1921
Description: View across street towards the UW-Heating Plant on Observatory Drive. There is an automobile parked at the curb in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

Gas Service in Wisconsin

Date: 1974
Description: This blue line map show gas services and county boundaries. Includes a legend of company names in lower left hand corner.
Photograph

Electric Furnace on Truck Bed

Date: 09 03 1927
Description: Three-quarter view of right side of truck. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and the bed of the truck has a striped awning over the top of the truck b...
Photograph

Delivery Truck

Date: 03 10 1928
Description: Left side view of a truck parked across a road in front of a stone wall and a fence. There is a large brick building in the far background. The sign on the...
Photograph

New U.W. Heating Plant

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Exterior of the recently completed University of Wisconsin heating plant on Charter Street.
Photograph

New U.W. Heating Plant

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: The three large boilers in the recently completed University of Wisconsin heating plant on Charter Street.
Photograph

New U.W. Heating Plant

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Frank Kasiniski of Madison, right, and Wilburn Gibson of Detroit, MI, inspecting the second level of the newly completed University of Wisconsin heating pl...
Photograph

New U.W. Heating Plant

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Workers Frank Kasiniski and Wilburn Gibson inspecting the generator and turbine room at the new University of Wisconsin heating plant located on Charter St...
Photograph

A Big 'Pipe Job'

Date: 05 27 1959
Description: It takes a special "plumber" to put together pipes the size of these being installed in the heating tunnel under construction on N. Charter Street to carry...
Photograph

Furnace at McCormick Works

Date: 03 19 1909
Description: View of a furnace at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Furnace at McCormick Works

Date: 03 19 1909
Description: View of a furnace at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Manufacturing Area with Furnace

Date: 02 1910
Description: Interior view of manufacturing area, with a furnace, at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Men in Boiler Room at McCormick Works

Date: 07 23 1912
Description: Elevated view of two men working in a boiler room.
Photograph

Boiler/Turbine Room

Date: 11 07 1920
Description: Interior view of the boiler/turbine room. Men are standing behind the turbine on the right, and a pile of coal is in front of a tall bank of windows in the...
Photograph

Man in Boiler/Turbine Room

Date: 12 09 1920
Description: View of a man standing in the boiler/turbine room. A sign on the machine reads: "Oil all spindle bearings at least 4 times a day."
Photograph

Heat and Power Laboratory

Date: 1947
Description: Steam turbines in the Heat and Power Lab in the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The lab has large windows an...

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