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| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 09 10 1987 |
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| Description: | A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day. |
| Date: | 05 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor. |
| Date: | 04 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Two Taylor County tar tank trucks parked in front of Max Lehman's house, 1724 Park Street. Taken for William Gunnison, road contractor, Middleton, Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 04 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Two Lafayette County tar tank trucks park in front of Max Lehman's house, 1724 Park Street. |
| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp... |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Madison Fire Department's new gray $16,200 aerial fire truck is parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. Roy Hurling is dri... |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Breese Stevens Athletic Field, with lights on tall poles, and a chain link fence along the sidewalk. View looking toward E. Washington Avenue with Simon Br... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Department of Public Works workers look over signs to be posted on city streets. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Shawano County Highway Department garage. |
| Date: | 08 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol is the Madison Bus Company's new 35 foot bus which seats 45 people. The bus will go into service the follo... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in bushel baskets on Capitol Square during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down road of overhead lighting equipment of the T.M.E.R. and L. Company, which, at the time had a proposal to be replaced by more modern lighting. Th... |
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| Description: | View down road of lighting system using steel poles and modern fixtures on the terrace near sidewalks. Three cars are parked along the road, and houses are... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International I-4 industrial tractor with crane owned by the Milwaukee Waterworks. Original caption reads: "The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased thi... |
| Date: | 11 16 1989 |
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| Description: | View from the Water Street Bridge over the Waupaca River toward the Waupaca Water Department. |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men load boxes onto an International D-300 truck owned by the City of Santa Ana. The truck was used for garbage removal. One man stands in the bed of the t... |
| Date: | 05 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men load garbage onto the back of an International DS-35 truck owned by the City of Louisville, while two men sit in the truck's cab. The truck is on... |
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