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| Date: | 12 12 1953 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps are unloading holiday trees from boxcars at the Gisholt Machine Company, where they have set up a lot to ... |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of men posing in front of the J.H. Findorff, Contractor, Planing Mill & Lumber Yard building. A smaller brick building on the far r... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Three men are posing in front of construction materials. The man on the left is holding a hand drill, the man in the center is holding a long saw, and the ... |
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| Description: | Men wearing overalls, jackets, hats, and gloves are pushing carts of wooden and cardboard crates which read: "Oscar Mayer, Approved, Fine Foods since 1883,... |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the loading dock at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400 block of East Mif... |
| Date: | 08 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison Newspapers Inc. newsboy John Pertzborn gives his mother, Margaret Pertzborn, a goodbye hug before boarding the train for a week in the nation's cap... |
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| Description: | Shaded sculpture, identified as "Creature Abstract," in Sid Boyum's backyard. Painted entirely white, the sculpture uses bold negative spaces with curvilin... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Brakeman R.D. DeRoche pressing the button to deactivate the warning lights as the Illinois Central train passes the intersection with Monroe and Regent Str... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | After passing the intersection of Monroe and Regent Streets, the brakeman gets back on the train for the trip to Freeport on the Illinois Central Railroad. |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer & Co. with Lake Mendota in the distance. Text on reverse reads: "Pictured here in aerial color view is the meat packing plan... |
| Date: | 06 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Freedom Train. A line of people are behind the locomotive. In the background are the storage tanks for Fiore Coal & Oil Co. |
| Date: | 06 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Thirteen Girl Scouts from Troop 31 from Sherman School prepare to depart on a bus to Minneapolis. The Girl Scouts will earn points for their travel badge. ... |
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