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Sanitation Workers Carrying Trash to Garbage Truck

Date: 1976
Description: View down sidewalk of two African-American sanitation workers carrying cans and sacks of trash to a garbage truck, is stopped in a residential neighborhood...
Photograph

Men Pushing Trash Cans Towards Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat...
Photograph

Man Emptying Trash Barrel into Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar...
Map or Atlas

Map of Tenth Ward of Madison, Wisconsin : Showing Improvements Secured During the Past Four Years

Date: 1916
Description: Shows streetlights, streets improvements, and sewer districts in red. Points of interest are labelled. Map reads: "Map of Tenth Ward Showing Improvements S...
Map or Atlas

Profile, Central Heating Plant Lake Mendota : Showing Location of Proposed Sewer, University of Wisconsin ; Surveyed by J.D. Hurley

Date: 1903
Description: This map is ink on printed paper reading: "standard profile plate." "Surveyed Oct. 15, platted Dec. 15, 1903 ; surveyed May 9, platted Dec. 9."
Map or Atlas

Map of the Water Works System of Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: Shows pipes of various sizes, hydrants, valves, and wells. "1907" -- Lower margin. Lake Wingra, Lake Monona, and Lake Mendota are labelled.
Photograph

Sun Prairie 4-H Club Road Clean-up

Date: 04 17 1959
Description: Thirty-three Sun Prairie 4-H youngsters are shown with one of four truckloads of trash they picked up along area highways.
Photograph

Dane County Highway Commissioner

Date: 11 11 1959
Description: Portrait of Dane County highway commissioner, Ray R. Swann.
Photograph

Maple Bluff Fire Department Honored

Date: 01 14 1960
Description: Madison Fire Chief Edward Page, center, presents a plaque from the International Fire Chiefs Association to Maple Bluff's volunteer fire department for ach...
Photograph

Land Survey Corners Marked

Date: 02 02 1960
Description: The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar...
Photograph

Salt and Gravel

Date: 1963
Description: Sand and gravel pit used by the Dane County highway department as a source of supply.
Photograph

Maple Bluff Fire School

Date: 11 12 1960
Description: A scene from a fire school held by the Maple bluff fire department for their volunteer firemen. They witnessed demonstrations on how to put out different t...
Photograph

Maple Bluff Fire School

Date: 11 12 1960
Description: A scene from a fire school held by the Maple bluff fire department for their volunteer firemen. They witnessed demonstrations on how to put out different t...
Map or Atlas

General Development Plan for Nakoma, Madison, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: This map shows a plat of the area, numbered blocks and lots, local streets, roads, parks, Nakoma Country Club golf course, and landscaping. The map is orie...
Postcard

Chippewa Falls City Hall

Date: 1920
Description: View from street of Chippewa Falls city hall. On the left are garage doors for fire engine storage, and a watch tower is at upper right. Another building ...
Photograph

Breese Stevens Field

Date: 05 15 1931
Description: Composite of two negatives of Breese Stevens Athletic Field with lights on tall poles. On the left, view is of the Simon Brothers Wholesale Grocery Warehou...
Map or Atlas

Map of a Portion of Madison, Wisconsin Bounded by Main St., the Yahara River, Wilson St., and Dickenson St.

Date: 1910
Description: This maps is pen and pencil on tracing cloth and shows local streets, buildings, proposed and present branches of railroad track, and sewer and water lines...
Map or Atlas

Village of Lake Delton, Sauk County, Wis. : Located in Sections 16, 20 & 21, T13N, R6E

Date: 03 1964
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, some landownership, disposal plant and pumping station, streets, parks, and vacated land. Lake Delton and streets are...
Map or Atlas

Luck, Wisconsin : Water Map

Date: 1960
Description: This blue line print map shows pipes, valves, well site, and elevation tank, as well as lot and block numbers and dimensions. The map includes inset of con...
Map or Atlas

Laurel Acres Including Additions in the S.W. 1/4 Section 14, T9N., R21E., Village of Thiensville, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 04 1958
Description: This blueprint map shows additions, sections, and streets. The upper left of the map reads: "Plan for 6ʺ watermain, hydrants & appurtenances." The up...

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