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| Date: | 06 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Leon A. Smith, Madison's water superintendent since 1916. |
| Date: | 04 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Water Softener Service, Inc. employee, Kenneth Olson, unloading a portable water softener tank from a specially designed truck. Water Softener Service, Inc... |
| Date: | 05 02 1946 |
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| Description: | A truck for Servisoft Company, 555 West Mifflin Street. Advertisement on side of truck says "SERViSOFT, Enjoy Soft Water, the Modern Way." |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Water Softening Service, Inc. booth at the East Side Business Mens Festival featuring Culligan water softeners. Also shown is a booth for Mell's Hardware. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title "Pure Drinking Water - Friend to Health - Foe to Typhoid." Includes images illustrating old and new ways of providing dr... |
| Date: | 07 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Two mud-splattered International trucks with drivers parked in front of a wooden water tank. The tank has a hand-painted sign that reads: "Positively No Sw... |
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| Description: | View of the City Water Works, which was built in 1882. Caption reads: "City Water Works, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill toward the building which has two large smokestacks. The Lake Michigan shoreline is on the left. In front is a landscaped area with... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Storage Tank #2. A large, rounded tank with a conical roof. Another tank is directly behind. A large brick building is on the right. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | West side of filter building. Pipes are stacked on the right side of the building, and part of a storage tank can be seen on the left. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Front view of pump room, side of part of Boiler Room. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the stone-walled headquarters building of the Water Regulatory Board located within a grove of trees. According to text included with the ... |
| 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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag... |
| Date: | 10 12 1938 |
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| Description: | International P-30 power unit owned by the Darlington water works. The unit pumped 500 gallons per minute. |
| Date: | 03 24 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the municipal water plant pump house showing the auxiliary and emergency pump units, powered by an International P-30 power unit. |
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