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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | An old Masonic Temple and a new temple under construction. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the Nicolet monument at the site where Nicolet is supposed to have landed in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The proposed Mendota Lake Front Development Plan, William Kaeser, architect. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the Methodist Hospital. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of a steamer at Point Douglas going upstream on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A serviceman checks the oil of a car at the Madison Co-op Station. During the 1930s the cooperative movement in Wisconsin expanded its rural base to offer ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Training classes for University of Wisconsin student cadets in the repair of automobiles and trucks during World War I. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Advanced, horse-drawn road grader in action. Here, excess dirt moves up a conveyor belt and is dumped in a wagon next to the grader. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | In 1922 the Wisconsin Truck Company purchased the Wisconsin Farm Tractor Company of Sauk City, which had formerly manufactured trucks as well as wagons, mo... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | International Harvester-made bus of the Park Hotel, probably photographed near the railroad station where it was picking up passengers. This small jitney-t... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Universal Delivery Grocery Truck built by the Wisconsin Wagon Company. The photograph was taken in 1921, about the time the company relocated its operatio... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Construction of Wisconsin General Hospital is underway in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dam and power station on a river. Two automobiles are parked in a lot in the lower left corner. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of toll bridge under construction. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of old toll bridge across the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. The view is looking north toward Sauk County. |
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| Description: | Construction of the new Wisconsin River Bridge at Prairie du Sac taken by Melvin Diemer for the Wisconsin Goods Roads Association. The old toll bridge is v... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin highway patrolman grading with a team of horses. Image taken for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. |
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| Description: | Road construction just north of the Crawford-Vernon County line on State Highway 27, showing both the new and old routes. According to the caption on the ... |
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| Description: | Campground for employees of the Nelson Weber Construction Company photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association during the early 1920s. Such facili... |
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