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| Description: | Two horses pull a street waterer. When Main Street was a dirt road, the local merchants paid to have it sprinkled during the summer to keep the dust down. ... |
| 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: | 06 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View includes power plant, smokestacks, electric-line towers, and cars ... |
| Date: | 01 30 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Peter Mohm wears a coat and scarf indoors as she collects taxes in an unheated federal building. |
| Date: | 11 23 1968 |
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| Description: | New punch card machines installed in city hall are put to use. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage on South Hamilton Street being viewed by two children during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Janesville showing the river fill for the new sewerage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Shawano County Highway Department garage. |
| Date: | 06 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Leon A. Smith, Madison's water superintendent since 1916. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pumping station with a tall smokestack. Caption reads: "Pumping Station, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | E.W. Keyes Steam Fire Engine Company Number 1, Madison Fire Department, organized in 1866. |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 05 1946 |
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| 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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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1906 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 01 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 01 1947 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 01 1947 |
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| 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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