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| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The printed inscription identifies this scene, "Looking South on Main Street, Montello, Wis." A woman is standing on the sidewalk at left near a parked bug... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A cabinet card photograph of the Montello House Hotel. The two-story brick building has a gable fronted wing on the right and a shingled wooden tower on th... |
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| Description: | High humidity and low temperatures cause massive steam clouds to billow from the stacks of Wisconsin Power and Light Company behind a house on Jenifer Stre... |
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| Description: | View alongside railroad tracks looking towards an approaching steam locomotive. In the background on the right is a power plant with smokestacks. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A very large white oak tree standing along County Trunk Highway S dwarfs a utility pole nearby. There is a barn across a field in the far background. The t... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of downtown Milwaukee, with Lake Michigan in the background. The eight story 1920 addition to the Boston Store is in the foreground, ident... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Leonore Middleton, center left, is posing standing along a bridge railing wearing a long winter coat and hat. Other people in traditional Japanese attire a... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Straight rows of tobacco plants flourishing in a large field. There are farm buildings and a windmill in the background. Utility poles on the are on the ri... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A large round barn, built as a show barn and arena, standing on the grounds of the Central Wisconsin State Fair. The barn has a band of clerestory windows ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees towards the Fox River. A dam is creating a reservoir for hydroelectric power. Former paper mills are on the left shore of the rive... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View down street towards two buildings in the background that are part of the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, makers of Mirro cookware. The buildings... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards vines covering the walls of the two-story brick factory building housing the Oconto Knitting Mills. A painted sign on the buildi... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Vines are growing on the side of the brick Kraft Phenix cheese factory building at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Edison Street. Raised letters on the frie... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing a pith helmet, are directing the stream from a fire hose over a body of water. There are several men in the background, some wearing W... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Nighttime view of Dairyland Power Cooperative's Genoa Station Number 3, located near Genoa along the Mississippi River. A lit Christmas tree stands on one ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards a taxi and several other automobiles parked in front of the Brumder Building. Flags and flag-inspired bunting decorate the f... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Workmen from Madison Gas and Electric Company work on Main Street at the Capitol Square to check for gas leaks after two explosions rocked downtown Madison... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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... |
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