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Electric Light & Power Company

Date: 1922
Description: Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi...
Postcard

Barstow Street

Date: 1905
Description: View of commercial buildings. One of the buildings has a sign painted on the side that reads: "Fleming's Jewelry Store." Several of the buildings have awni...
Photograph

Aerial View of Wisconsin Power and Light Company

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam.
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Garbage Disposal Plant

Date: 1924
Description: The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront.
Photograph

Sewer Shoveling

Date: 1935
Description: As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner.
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Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company

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Description: Exterior of the Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, built in 1918. The view from across the Wisconsin River shows the company building, a dam, as w...
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Wolf River Lines Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Wolf River Lines, a telephone company in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, with telephone poles and wires spanning a river with silhouettes of buildings ...
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Panorama of Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Panoramic elevated view to the northeast from the Capitol Square.
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Fire in the Wisconsin Building

Date: 01 13 1914
Description: Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr...
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Fire in the Wisconsin Building

Date: 01 13 1914
Description: A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com...
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Grand Avenue

Date: 1923
Description: An elevated view of Grand (now Wisconsin) Avenue near 18th Street from the second floor of the home of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder. Snow is covering th...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1945
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Westfield, Wis." Many automobiles and a Greyhound Bus are diagonally parked on Main Street. The destination sign on the ...

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