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| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International Model D-300 truck used by the Montreal Tramways Company. A man in the back of the truck is holding a ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreakin... |
| Date: | 08 1930 |
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| Description: | A man using a shovel and a litter carrier on a track system to clean the gutter of a dairy barn at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. Th... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Participating in the groundbreaking ceremonies for a new elementary school building on the Edgewood campus are left to right, foreground: Mother Evelyn Mot... |
| Date: | 05 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Ground breaking ceremonies at the site of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church to replace the church that was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Reverend Edwar... |
| Date: | 09 22 1926 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the doorway of a farm building uses a shovel to load fertilizer onto a manure spreader pulled by a team of horses. |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a piece of equipment holding a shovel to move the contents of an International truck owned by the Ready-Mixed Concrete Corp. into a wheelba... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Barn and silo, with horses and farm wagon, and three children in pony buggy. Three men stand near the horse-drawn wagon on the left. The two horses are wea... |
| Date: | 06 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Men hold shovels during the groundbreaking ceremony held for the new U.W. mathematics building. It will be located between Bascom Hall and Sterling Hall an... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t... |
| Date: | 06 06 1965 |
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| Description: | A city worker painting a curb yellow in a no parking zone. The location is West Dayton Street, looking towards North Randall Avenue. Fire Station #4 is in ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Man standing in horse-drawn wagon loading a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a silo and barn in the background. |
| Date: | 06 19 1936 |
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| Description: | One man is working on a ladder near the side door of a one and one half story, masonry block building with five garage bays. There are two men on the right... |
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| Description: | View of workers and supervisors during construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant. The floor is covered in plastic. The renovat... |
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