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Three Workmen

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing on a telephone pole with climbing equipment, with two men standing below.
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Safway Steel Scaffold

Date: 06 05 1946
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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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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Richmond Indiana City Line Department Truck

Date: 01 24 1928
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck marked "City Line Dept. No.4" Other men raise what appears to be a telephone pole along the side of a...
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Theresa Waste Disposal System

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "Theresa Waste Disposal System. Village man, Jim Zillmer, checks out sprinkler system."
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Electric Light Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of the Eastman power plant. Two children pose on a metal cylinder outside the plant. The text on the photograph reads, "The Best electric light pl...
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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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Telephone Linemen

Date: 1935
Description: A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ...

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