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| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
| Date: | 03 23 1950 |
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| Description: | A large steel cylinder-shaped water reservoir stands above a drilled well with a tall construction crane behind it. The well under construction is Unit #9 ... |
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| Description: | View across water of the dredge "Winneconne" on the Fox River canal. Although undated the photograph was probably taken during the 1940s. The "Winneconne"... |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks towards industrial activity on the edge of the river, possibly building a dam. |
| Date: | 03 21 1997 |
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| Description: | "The base of the new water tower is now taking shape." |
| Date: | 05 23 1997 |
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| Description: | "Workmen weld the base of the water tower." |
| Date: | 05 27 1997 |
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| Description: | "On the following pages workmen assemble Theresa's new water tank." |
| Date: | 05 29 1997 |
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| Description: | "On a foggy and rainy morning, work continued as this photo was taken through the windshield of a worker's truck." |
| Date: | 05 29 1997 |
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| Description: | "The two halves of the sphere are welded by welders inside and outside of the tank." |
| Date: | 09 10 1997 |
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| Description: | "Dismantling Theresa's Water Tower." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, with the dome under construction. View is looking north, towards the South Pediment. In the background on the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works, with construction of wheel shop. Streetcars are along the street in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of man driving TD-9. Subject: "TD-9 — Road Building." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Mason Brod., Houston, T... |
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