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| Date: | 02 28 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards driver's side of a snowplow parked in front of a brick building. The sign painted on the window reads: "[Leela]nau County Road Commission." Sn... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison Park Superintendent James G. Marshall throwing the switch to turn on the new Vilas Park merry-go-round. Show (L-R) with Marshall are park crew memb... |
| Date: | 07 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Switch-throwing ceremony for the new electric sub-station in Sun Prairie on Market Street. Five men are standing in front of the transformer and other equi... |
| Date: | 07 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A group of six smiling postal workers are listening as Floyd Switzky, center, reads the news that Congress voted to override President Eisenhower's veto of... |
| Date: | 10 21 1960 |
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| Description: | A Madison street department crew cleans leaves from the gutter along Mandan Crescent using a leaf vacuum machine as neighborhood children watch. Workers ar... |
| Date: | 11 1976 |
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| Description: | A city worker putting up holiday decorations on a light pole using a telescopic forklift. |
| Date: | 04 25 1979 |
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| Description: | A truck is moving along a tunnel, with a rotating scrub brush attached to its rear scrubbing the ceiling of the tunnel. A man is walking on the opposite si... |
| Date: | 05 31 1979 |
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| Description: | Two men in protective suits are using hoses to spray paint onto a bridge grating. Caption reads: "NEW PAINT, SAME COLOR — The State St. bridge over ... |
| Date: | 01 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Two men are shoveling steaming asphalt from the rear of a truck. Caption reads: "Portage County Highway Department workers Victor Peters (left) and Arleigh... |
| Date: | 04 11 1985 |
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| Description: | Five men are working on a highway, placing tar and covering it with tissue. A line of cars are passing in the opposite lane. A field and farm buildings are... |
| Date: | 07 29 1983 |
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| Description: | A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 06 30 1989 |
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| Description: | Many people are sitting on folding chairs. An infant is sitting on a blanket on the floor next to them and playing with stacking cups. Caption reads: "TOYI... |
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