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Power Plant

Date: 06 20 1961
Description: Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokes...
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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Men Constructing Powerhouse

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Description: Men constructing the framework of the Hatfield Powerhouse.
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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.
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Aerial View of Wisconsin Steel Works

Date: 1970
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background.
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Bureau of Sewers Dump Truck

Date: 12 01 1937
Description: A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ...
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Bicyclist on Monona Avenue

Date: 1910
Description: A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha...
Postcard

Power Station

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized photographic postcard of an elevated view of the power station next to the river. A bridge is in the background. Caption reads: "Power Station, B...
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Al. Ringling Home in Winter

Date: 1922
Description: Trees broken and bowed under the weight of a heavy coating of ice stand in front of the Al. Ringling home. Limbs litter the snow-covered ground. Ice is on ...
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First Congregational Church in Winter

Date: 1922
Description: Downed wires and broken tree limbs mar the scene in front of the First Congregational Church at 131 6th Avenue.
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Steam Pipe Construction in Madison

Date: 06 30 1965
Description: Steam pipe construction along Langdon street east of Park street. The corner of the Wisconsin Historical Society is on the left. Science Hall is in the bac...
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The Boston Store

Date: 1930
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...
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Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company

Date: 07 1936
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...
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Knitting Mill

Date: 07 1936
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...
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Kraft Phenix Plant

Date: 07 1936
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...
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Gas Main Explosions Killed a Madison Couple

Date: 01 05 1958
Description: A Madison Gas and Electric Company worker probing for gas leaks with a meter on the Capitol Square after two explosions rocked downtown Madison, killing tw...
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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...
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Power

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa...
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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