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Collecting Taxes in the Federal Building

Date: 01 30 1961
Description: Mrs. Peter Mohm wears a coat and scarf indoors as she collects taxes in an unheated federal building.
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Card Punch Machines

Date: 11 23 1968
Description: New punch card machines installed in city hall are put to use.
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Children on Curb with Uncollected Rubbish

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Uncollected garbage on South Hamilton Street being viewed by two children during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union.
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Sewerage Disposal Plant

Date: 1934
Description: Aerial view of Janesville showing the river fill for the new sewerage disposal plant.
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Highway Department Garage

Date: 1930
Description: Shawano County Highway Department garage.
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Leon A. Smith

Date: 06 12 1944
Description: Portrait of Leon A. Smith, Madison's water superintendent since 1916.
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Madison Fire Department

Date: 1870
Description: E.W. Keyes Steam Fire Engine Company Number 1, Madison Fire Department, organized in 1866.
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Power House

Date: 1906
Description: Power house during construction.
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Highway Weed Control

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Description: Weed control unit of the Rock County Highway Department showing the equipment used to spray weeds along the highways.
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Water Wagon Pulled by Horses

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Description: Slightly elevated view towards a horse-drawn water sprinkler on a wagon approaching an arch over the intersection during a parade. People are gathered on t...
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Safway Steel Scaffold

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: A Safway Steel Scaffold at the Capitol Heat and Power Plant, 624 East Main Street. Safway Steel Scaffolds Company, offices at 940 Williamson Street, is an ...
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Oneida Street Power Plant

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Description: The Oneida Street (East Wells) power plant, on the north side of Wells and east of the Milwaukee River. Presently, the building is the Milwaukee Repertory ...
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Menomonee Valley

Date: 09 26 1906
Description: Menomonee Valley looking southeast from about N. 27th Street and W. St. Paul Avenue. A Milwaukee Gas Light Co. gas holder is on the left.
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Madison City Bus

Date: 08 01 1947
Description: Pictured in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol is the Madison Bus Company's new 35 foot bus which seats 45 people. The bus will go into service the follo...
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Madison City Bus

Date: 08 01 1947
Description: Interior view looking toward the back of a Madison Bus Company's new 35 foot bus which seats 45 people. Above the windows are advertising posters.
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Madison Bus Company

Date: 08 01 1947
Description: The Madison Bus Company's new 45 seat bus shown with company officials and former employees formerly associated with the Madison Railways Company, the pred...
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin...
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump.
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Violet Feeney

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Mrs. John (Violet) Feeney demonstrating that she can not cram any more garbage into her garbage can because the city has not collected her garbage for nine...
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Construction Worker Crouched at Manhole

Date: 1969
Description: A construction worker wearing a red hard hat crouches next to an open manhole in the street.

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