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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Teacher and three students in a classroom at Shorewood Hills School looking at a Weston Photonic Foot-candle Meter that measures light in the room.
Photograph

Baraboo Carnegie Free Library

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Description: Interior view of the Baraboo Carnegie Free Library. There is a fireplace, bookshelves, display shelves, and reading tables with bentwood chairs. There are ...
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Electric Park

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Description: View across water toward a tall, lighted, electric tower at night with trees and lighted posts surrounding it among trees. Caption reads, "Electric Tower b...
Print

Frank R. Dengel & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Frank R. Dengel & Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dealer in lighting fixtures and sanitary plumbing. On the left is an illustration of a...
Print

W.E. Goodman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of W.E. Goodman of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dealer in gas and electric lighting fixtures and sanitary plumbing, with a wall-mounted lighting fixtur...
Photograph

Bird Nest

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Description: View of a bird (Robin) perched on its nest atop an outdoor lighting fixture.
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Bird Nest

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Description: View of an adult bird (Robin) feeding its young in a nest atop an outdoor lighting fixture.
Photograph

City Bakery

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Description: Indoor portrait of a European American man posing standing behind glass display cases in a shop with electric light bulbs in fixtures handing from the ceil...
Photograph

City Bakery; Interior

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Description: Interior view of a bakery, with a man posing standing behind a counter wrapping two loaves of bread. The bread is displayed in glass cases. Identified as t...
Manuscript

West Wing Electrical Fixtures — Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 06 1908
Description: Electrical fixtures, West Wing.
Magazine or Periodical

The Electric Light in Madison Square, New York

Date: 01 14 1882
Description: A drawing showing Madison Square at night, lit by electric lighting at the top of a mast. Men and women are strolling on the sidewalks and walking on the s...

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