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| Description: | Men with shovels during the flood at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 11 20 1963 |
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| Description: | A three-year-old poses with a man-sized shovel of soil during a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a new preschool. Behind him is a large steam shovel. |
| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Man standing in the bed of an International coal delivery truck owned by Thos. J. Kearney Jr., Inc. The man is shoveling coal and the truck is backed up to... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin Outing Club watch the excavation of a burial mound at the Outlet group in 1935. |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene from the corner of 7th Street after the "big snow" of 1881, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Two horses hitched up to a Milwaukee Western Fuel Company cart stopped at a station, with a man standing on the wagon filling the cart with hard coal for h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International Model D-300 truck used by the Montreal Tramways Company. A man in the back of the truck is holding a ... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug... |
| Date: | 03 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank. |
| Date: | 06 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Four officials of the South Side Men's Club participate in groundbreaking for their new club house, Sunday, June 29, 1952. Shown left to right are: Tom Har... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of Prospect Avenue. A group of men and a woman standing in front of the store, which is a two-story wooden building with shuttered windows, next to a ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ... |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a man working with a small spade on the left, and men and women in the distance across a city street. Location identified as Main ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with men working by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the fill and reconstru... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a large group of people standing near the wreck of a train. Railroad cars have fallen over to the left of the tracks. Two... |
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