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Parked Tractor

Date: 05 20 1962
Description: A parked tractor on a street near industrial buildings.
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Oil Storage Tanks

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: View across a railroad bridge of a group of seven oil storage tanks in a wooded area.
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Railroad Yard

Date: 05 18 1963
Description: View across a railroad yard with several railroad cars and four storage tanks in the background.
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Industrial Buildings

Date: 09 29 1963
Description: View across water of a railroad bridge along the side of a strip of industrial buildings. Railroad cars are stopped in front of the buildings.
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Sculptured Advertising Company

Date: 05 31 1965
Description: Sculptured Advertising Company (F.A.S.T. Corporation of Sparta is an outgrowth of Sculptured Advertising) with unfinished prop displays, perhaps made of fi...
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Mercury Outboard Boat Engine Plant

Date: 09 10 1967
Description: Exterior view of the Mercury Outboard boat engine manufacturing plant. The firm purchased the buildings from a large dairy farm and later built a modern fa...
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Mississippi River Bluffs

Date: 07 05 1965
Description: View from the Mississippi River toward the bluffs. A residential home, old bank building, truck and railroad building are on a hill among trees below the b...
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John Deere Farm Machinery Manufacturing Plant

Date: 05 05 1962
Description: The John Deere farm machinery manufacturing plant. "Bascule" passage between buildings which is raised to let freight cars pass on railroad tracks.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

Date: 
Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

Date: 
Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 281-288

Date: 
Description: De Pere, Wis.

The sound has never left the harp
The song will never leave the well
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 304-311

Date: 
Description: Always looking at the vacancy in that great sea of people

All there ever was was a greeting card
and that one a mirage
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 319-324

Date: 
Description: There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses

But they don't make it any more
They think it was a toy
Photograph

Oshkosh Factories

Date: 1962
Description: Factories on Custer Avenue. On the left is the Waite Carpet Co., and in the background is the CKL Machinery Co.
Photograph

Blum Box Company

Date: 09 19 1961
Description: Old building and equipment on the property of the Blum Box Company.
Photograph

Car and Cold Storage Plant

Date: 08 11 1963
Description: Car parked in the lot of a cold storage plant.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky

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