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| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, preparing the new concrete foundation for the "Blue Dragon Urn," which was relocated from Sid Boyum's backyard to the pu... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, standing by the "Smiling Mushroom" and a new concrete foundation that he poured for the "Blue Dragon Urn." Both sculptur... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh... |
| Date: | 05 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Barrels of supplies to stock area fallout shelters being unloaded at the City-County Building by work relief program participants and Huber law prisoners f... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | View looking down at Paul Dawalt, 746 Dunning Street, spends a spring day removing storm windows and installing screens at his home. He is climbing a ladde... |
| Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Adolph Frederick Schmidt sitting at his bench, working on a leather harness in his shop at 304 East Main Street. He started his career as a harness maker i... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | A steel worker from Milwaukee attaches a rope to be used to pull an antenna into place on a tower on top of the new City-County Building. The antenna is fo... |
| Date: | 08 03 1957 |
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| Description: | "Wisconsin" - the statue atop the State Capitol building's dome. A painter is hanging from the statue's neck by a climbing rope, pulleys, and a bench while... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Two Madison Gas and Electric Company workmen checking pipes on Main Street in downtown Madison after two gas blasts and fires rocked downtown Madison, kill... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Workmen from Madison Gas and Electric Company work on Main Street at the Capitol Square to check for gas leaks after two explosions rocked downtown Madison... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A Madison Gas and Electric Company worker probing for gas leaks with a meter on the Capitol Square after two explosions rocked downtown Madison, killing tw... |
| Date: | 10 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz... |
| Date: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Jerry Clarke, 217 Division Street, and William Frosch, 1134 Pauline Street, employees of Olson Glass Company, 625 Williamson Street, install a glass pane i... |
| Date: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Jerry Clarke, 217 Division Street, an employee of the Olson Glass Company, 625 Williamson Street, sprays a pane of glass with window cleaner before install... |
| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | Charles Henriksen, Baraboo, is shown laying floor tile in the new Samuel Gompers Elementary School under construction at 1502 Wyoming Way on the northeast ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ... |
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