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| Date: | 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Starting to raise "Wisconsin" statue onto the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol (the fourth State Capitol, the third in Madison, 1906 - ). The gilded bro... |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View from the roof of Kruse's store towards two workmen and the construction house. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two stone cutters (probably Italian) working on decorative details over the east entrance during the construction of the State Historical Society of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to complete the positioning of the "Forward" statue at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The grandstand can be seen in the ba... |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Construction on Mount Rushmore. Scaffolding is visible across Abraham Lincoln's face. Work has just begun on Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from across road of Baxter House, a two-story wooden structure. A man is sitting on the roof working on the chimney. A bell tower is seen behind the r... |
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| Description: | An unknown group of men lifting a pulley in the process of constructing an unknown building. A man in the background is filming the process. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Monument construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Workmen are standing around the perimeter of a large hole while others are dig... |
| Date: | 04 23 1970 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of the Sound Storm music festival stage under construction as viewed from scaffolding. |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men constructinbg a movie set in a small, downtown area. |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown area reconstructed for a movie location set. Several contemporary automobiles are seen in the background. Men are working on on two diff... |
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| Description: | Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ... |
| Date: | 1825 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A construction worker is chiseling a decorative element on a stone slab during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Gran... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Portions of columns awaiting installation are stacked near a wooden open-sided building during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View of a worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure chiseling details in the capitals of what will be the top of the columns of the Eau Claire Publi... |
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