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Madison Airport and Cardinal Airplane

Date: 06 21 1930
Description: W.L. Pinney, general manager of the Madison Airport (aka North Street Airport) and the Midwest Air Transport Company, stands by the company's two seat "Sup...
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Madison Airport and Midwest Air Transport Airplanes

Date: 06 21 1930
Description: Midwest Air Transport planes in front of the hangar at the Madison Airport. Located northeast of the city near the Oscar Mayer plant, the field was someti...
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Madison Airport and Travel Air

Date: 10 23 1930
Description: Travelair plane returning to the Madison Airport from a Wisconsin v. Purdue football game. Here photographer Aldro Wasley is handing photographs of the gam...
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Madison Royal Airport Repair Shop

Date: 05 26 1932
Description: The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and ...
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Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Co. Interior

Date: 07 26 1945
Description: Interior of Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company with workmen and equipment, 754 East Washington Avenue. Large road grader in background.
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Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Co. Interior

Date: 08 01 1945
Description: Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company workshop with four workmen and equipment, 724 East Washington Avenue. Tractors are in the background.
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Gardner Bakery Truck

Date: 10 22 1936
Description: Gardner Bakery truck and driver parked in front of Madison Machine and Engine Company, 844 E. Washington Avenue. Taken for Diamond T Truck Sales.
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Philgas Co. Employees

Date: 08 11 1936
Description: Outdoor group portrait of ten male employees of the Philgas Co.
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Green & Company Truck

Date: 04 30 1936
Description: Three men loading seed sacks into Green & Company Ford semi-trailer truck at Olds Seed Co. loading dock, 722 Williamson Street. Sign on truck reads: "Green...
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Damaged Truck

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: A Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train near the Brittingham Park crossing, Greenbush. Thomas Haney, truck driv...
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Hefty Sales Company Interior

Date: 05 21 1935
Description: Three Frigidaire refrigerator service men working in the Hefty Sales Co. shop, 210 E. Washington Avenue.
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Gardner Baking Co. Employees

Date: 10 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from out of town, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the backgr...
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Gardner Baking Co. Employees

Date: 10 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from Madison, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the background...
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Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
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Kidder Radio Shop (Panorama, Left Side)

Date: 12 23 1932
Description: Left interior of Kidder Radio Shop, 113 N. Baldwin Street. Shows two men working on radios.
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Kidder Radio Shop (Panorama, Right Side)

Date: 12 23 1932
Description: Right interior of Kidder Radio Shop, 113 N. Baldwin Street. Shows two men working on radios.
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Ruins, Royal Airport Hangar

Date: 08 16 1932
Description: Ruins of the Royal Airport hangar after a fire. Viewed from the road.
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Railroad Car Load of Culverts

Date: 07 20 1932
Description: Group of men sitting on top of railroad flatbed car loaded with culverts. Sign above them reads: "Capital City Culvert Company," 1335 Gilson Street.
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 08 12 1931
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the back side of the Fauerbach Brewery Building, 651-653 Williamson Street. A man is standing just inside a doorway at ...
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Linden Blacksmith

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: View of the Linden blacksmith shop, showing forge and equipment. The introduction of motorized farm equipment and automobiles led to the virtual disappeara...

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