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| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | The Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) office building on the corner of North Fairchild and West Mifflin Streets. The Bedford limestone building was designed ... |
| Date: | 03 17 1927 |
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| Description: | Dane County Electric Co. display window, showing a Delco Light washing machine and Frigidaire refrigerator, at 112 King Street. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dam and power station on a river. Two automobiles are parked in a lot in the lower left corner. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Workmen with the City Line Department use an International Model 63 truck to erect a power line or telephone pole near a bridge. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The brick, Italianate style Fox House hotel in Columbus. There are brackets under the overhang and a large belvidere. A sign on the building advertises Coc... |
| Date: | 01 24 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A street scene following an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and wires have been brought down by the weight of the ice. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a Baraboo, Wisconsin, alley after an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and their wires sag under the weight of t... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across reservoir of dam and power plant. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Downed wires and broken tree limbs mar the scene in front of the First Congregational Church at 131 6th Avenue. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A National brand automobile is stopped on the side of an unpaved road as a horse-drawn buggy approaches from the rear. The car is pulling a racing yacht on... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on the rear of a small streetcar in Japan. There is a utility pole and several two-story buildings on the left. |
| 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... |
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