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| 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: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers are removing dirt for the construction of the New York City subway with a Bucyrus shovel loader and an International truck. The workers are below s... |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1929 |
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| Description: | Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium under construction, with three men with a steam shovel clearing trees. 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor. |
| Date: | 07 10 1929 |
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| Description: | Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium under construction, with three men with a steam shovel clearing trees. 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor. |
| Date: | 08 14 1929 |
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| Description: | Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium foundation under construction. 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor. |
| Date: | 10 03 1928 |
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| Description: | Quinn Construction Company steam shovel excavating for the First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue. There is a house in the background. |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north, with steam shovel and other equipment. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. John... |
| Date: | 05 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Collapsed back wall of Netherwood's Printing Co., at 519 State Street. |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. Johnson Street, Holy Redeemer Rectory,... |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north with steam shovel. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. Johnson Street, and Holy ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | The Orpheum Theatre under construction, 216 State Street, looking east at back side of buildings on State Street, with construction workers, truck and stea... |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne... |
| Date: | 10 19 1925 |
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| Description: | A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several teams of work horses pulling Old Dominion wagons loaded with dirt at a rural construction site. There is a steam shovel working at... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men drive an International truck up a dirt road along the Colorado River during the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. There is a steam, or po... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff. |
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