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| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Department of Public Works workers look over signs to be posted on city streets. |
| Date: | 08 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Gas & Electric Company Steam Turbine Station and Substation, 115 South Blount Street, view from South Livingston Street. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Harbor area of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant, Stratton Grain Co., and more. |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag... |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo... |
| Date: | 02 15 1951 |
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| Description: | Milton Kneebone, a member of the city street-marking crew, spray-paints street name signs. |
| Date: | 07 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Madison park commission crew, responsible for the construction of the starting ramp and finish line platform for the Madison Soap Box... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of nine Madison street department workers who have prepared the derby hill for the Soap Box Derby for the past seven years. Kneeling, left t... |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke... |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Seven Madison street department workers preparing the route of the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Clark Evarts, William Skolaski, Ed Westb... |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | City parks personnel, left to right: Carl J. Schultz, Herbert Gorman, Daniel Finn and Richard Gilliard put up the starting ramp on South Midvale Boulevard ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of city streets department personnel Vincent Mongold (left), Gene Westbury, and Tony Cardarello Jr. The men helped set up the race t... |
| Date: | 10 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler being is presented with a 147-foot petition bearing signatures of 5,000 area residents seeking to ban the diversion of sewage from t... |
| Date: | 10 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Six officials pose for a group portrait at the dedication of a playground structure made of concrete in the shape of a castle; it is sponsored by the Jayce... |
| Date: | 03 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of 13 firemen sitting at two tables, ready to eat their 11 am meal. The men are at Central Station at 18 South Webster Street. From left to ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Thirty-three Sun Prairie 4-H youngsters are shown with one of four truckloads of trash they picked up along area highways. |
| Date: | 11 11 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dane County highway commissioner, Ray R. Swann. |
| Date: | 04 1958 |
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| 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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