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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing next in front of two automobiles parked at the rear of the Fauerbach Brewing Co., 651-653 Williamson Street. The Lake Monona shoreline... |
| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 12 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Madison industrial district taken from the top of the Madison Gas and Electric Co. gas tank looking south west down the 600 and 700 blocks o... |
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| Description: | Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 06 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Several men try to extinquish a fire in an ice house, which is known as the Conklin Fire. |
| Date: | 02 23 1953 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin crew gets into their shell from the dock on the Yahara River with Trachte boat houses in the background. View looking northwest tow... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi... |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Scene along the Yahara River where the body of Max Hobert, a Madison bartender, was found. |
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| Description: | City flour mills, on the Catfish River (Yahara River). The mill burned down in the fall of 1873. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view east along the north shore of Lake Monona, with Madison's east side industrial area in the background. The Deering Harvester Company is identified b... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view east along the north shore of Lake Monona, with Madison's east side industrial area in the background. Tall utility poles and railroad tracks follow... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Panoramic elevated view to the east from the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A detail of a Sanborn map showing the area around North Franklin, North Blair and North Hancock Streets. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View along the Catfish River, with shrubs and grasses covering the riverbank. On the far left are electrical poles along a dirt road bordering a field that... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view of Madison from a lake shoreline. Unknown location. |
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| Description: | View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of men posing on horse-drawn wagons parked in front of the Conklin Ice House. In the background on the right is Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | View across ice on Lake Mendota towards men using long poles to maneuver ice up to the conveyor belt to the Conklin Ice House. |
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| Description: | A group of eleven men is posing outdoors in front of a two-story building. On the far left is a man working a large bellows, perhaps for blacksmithing. Mos... |
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