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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Power & Light Company Building, 122 West Washington Avenue on the corner of Fairchild Street. Helstrom's Pharmacy occupies a large po... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells including the Wisconsin River and the dam and generating power plant. |
| Date: | 04 09 1935 |
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| Description: | N.M. Ulsch, assistant superintendent and bookkeeper, sits at a desk in the Street Cleaning Department of the City of Jacksonville offices. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A sketch of an aspect of the waterworks. Text reads "Typical PFT "Downes" Floating Cover Installation." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 06 1937 |
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| Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage treatment site. The sketch is signed "A Deimel" and dated "June 1936." The text at the bottom of the sketch reads "Sewage T... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A window display at the Wisconsin Power and Light Company office, 116 Fourth Avenue, features a General Electric refrigerator as "The Gateway to Health" un... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | The Gas and Electric Utility display at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Panoramic elevated view to the northeast from the Capitol Square. |
| 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: | 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 ... |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| 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 ... |
| 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... |
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