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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a D-line truck hauling a large section of aqueduct with a reservoir in the ba... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking east along Regent Street with snow on the ground. Visible are Lake Wingra, Monona Bay, railroad causeway across Monona, Lake Mendota, Hoyt Park, We... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Reservoir, looking South, with pedestrians walking along the edge of the empty reservoir. A team of horses with a cart or wagon can also be seen in the bac... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Looking down into the reservoir partially filled with water. A group of men stand at various levels; some with the carriage and horses at top, four on a le... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing on top of a square ledge over the reservoir. Other men are working in the reservoir. On the right is a wooden walkway. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A view looking west over water toward the Fox River dam at Montello. There is granite riprap on the left. A boat with a small sail is in the background. T... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man-made dam. Water pours from the dam into a reservoir creating a waterfall. |
| Date: | 09 09 1922 |
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| Description: | The farmhouse of the Wetherby Cranberry Company. At the time the farmhouse was owned by H. Kissinger. In the foreground is the corner of the water reservoi... |
| Date: | 09 25 1922 |
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| Description: | The reservoir bulkhead and watershed for the Edward Hableman cranberry marshes. The reservoir was part of the irrigation system used to flood the cranberry... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Humbird Roller Mill surrounded by rural landscape. A man leads on a porch beam as he poses for the picture. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Five women pose at the dam built by Frank Lloyd Wright at his home near Spring Green, Wisconsin. A sixth figure is obscured by tree branches on the right. ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the lef... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album b... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album b... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the left side of the photo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the lef... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Reservoir used to store water for raising cranberries. A large group of people are walking around the perimeter towards automobiles parked in the distance.... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river of McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd has gathered on a hilltop overlooking a large flat expanse which has been cleared of trees. A man is standing slightly downhill from the group and ... |
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