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Klein Dickert House Painters

Date: 06 03 1935
Description: Three Klein-Dickert Co. painters with two ladders are painting a house located at 2315 Rugby Row.
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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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Man Standing on Ladder

Date: 11 04 1943
Description: Man standing on folding ladder in Madison-Kipp Corp., with scene of factory floor in the background.
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Woman with Ladder at Madison-Kipp Corp.

Date: 11 11 1943
Description: A woman carrying a folding ladder on the Madison-Kipp Corporation factory floor.
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Man Carrying Ladder

Date: 11 04 1943
Description: Man in work clothes carrying a folding ladder past a Capitol Cartage truck parked at Straus Printing Company.
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Man on Ladder at Strauss Printing Company

Date: 11 04 1943
Description: Man using collapsible ladder at Strauss Printing Company.
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Klein-Dickert Employees

Date: 10 05 1937
Description: Three Klein-Dickert paperhangers and painters at work in a house.
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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
Description: View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr...
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Installing Rock Wool Insulation

Date: 11 21 1936
Description: Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street.
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Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
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Durfee Brothers Roofing

Date: 05 10 1935
Description: Durfee Brothers Roofing Co. truck in front of a home, Jos. P. Slightam residence) at 341 West Wilson Street, with a roofer installing shingles on the steep...
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Jean Randolph and Mural at West High School

Date: 06 01 1934
Description: Jean Randolph, with bandaged ankle, which she sprained when she fell from the ladder on which she is standing, drawing an 8' x 12' crayon mural of a knight...
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House Insulation with Rock Wool

Date: 01 17 1934
Description: A Johns-Manville Contractors Asbestos Products Company Rock Wool home insulation truck and trailer is parked in front of a house, with workers on ladders a...
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Worker at City Water Works

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: John Hines dismantling one of two out-of-date pumps at the Madison Water Works, 311 N. Hancock Street, a job he obtained through the CWA (Civil Works Admin...
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Holstein-Friesian Building

Date: 02 18 1931
Description: Holstein-Friesian Association of America building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. There is a truck parked on the terrace, and a man is on a ladder in front of t...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 02 1929
Description: Interior view of first floor lobby with construction debris and some tile work completed on the floor. In the background a man is standing on a ladder near...
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Tree Sitters

Date: 07 26 1930
Description: Ed Sullivan, age 11, 1119 W. Dayton Street, and Gordon Todd, 118 N. Charter Street, sitting in a tree in the 1100 block of W. Dayton Street, pursuing the t...
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Tree Sitter

Date: 07 11 1930
Description: Paul Vilbrandt, age 10, standing by a tree and ladder at the 1200 block of West Dayton Street, hoping to break the tree sitting record of Jimmie Clemons of...
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Roofing the Tenney Building

Date: 12 27 1929
Description: Four men laying Novoid Corkboard on the roof of the Tenney Building, located at 110 East Main Street.

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