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| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An older man is standing in an office, possibly a weigh station of the Philadelphia Street Department. He is at a bench with papers and various office supp... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man is sittin... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man operating a TD-25 on work site for the Blue Plains Water Pollution Plant. "Excavation Construction, Inc., has prime contrac... |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is standing behind a snow fence next to a surface aerator. Water is pouring down or up the machine, breaking the surface tension of the lake. Snow is... |
| Date: | 01 1977 |
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| Description: | Silhouetted view of the smokestacks, buildings, and parking lot of Madison Gas & Electric at sunrise. Smoke is rising out of the smokestacks, and cars are ... |
| Date: | 01 1977 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards three of the main smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric. |
| Date: | 01 1977 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards smoke rising from the buildings and smokestacks of Madison Gas & Electric. Snow is on the ground. |
| 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 ... |
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