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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ...
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Ray-O-Vac Buildings

Date: 11 28 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac buildings on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building, production plant, two houses: 2327 and 2331 Winnebago Street, and several cars....
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3F Steam Laundry Delivery Service

Date: 07 07 1931
Description: 3F Steam Laundry, 731 University Avenue, offered its customers the convenience of picking up and delivering laundry in the company's Chevrolet.
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Air Hammer Road Work

Date: 11 06 1928
Description: A worker is using an air hammer with compressor truck to do work on the road in the 800 block of University Avenue, looking west. Wisconsin Foundry & Machi...
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Construction of the Wisconsin Power and Light Building

Date: 10 11 1928
Description: View looking up Fairchild Street towards the Wisconsin Power and Light building, at 122 W. Washington Avenue, under construction, with a man working near a...
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Mautz Paint Factory with Trucks

Date: 03 06 1928
Description: View across street towrds the Mautz Paint and Glass Company, located at 116-124 North Murray Street. A sign on the building reads: "Factory and Office." Th...
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Orpheum Theater Under Construction

Date: 04 03 1926
Description: Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north, with steam shovel and other equipment. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. John...
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Orpheum Theater Under Construction

Date: 03 03 1926
Description: Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. Johnson Street, Holy Redeemer Rectory,...
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Bulldozing with a Hough Blade

Date: 1934
Description: Man bulldozing a pile of dirt with a McCormick-Deering crawler tractor with an attached blade. The blade was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company.
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Construction of City-County Building

Date: 10 24 1955
Description: Elevated view of the City County Building under construction. Automobiles are parked in the street and a truck with a semi-trailer is parked in front of a ...
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Swift Workers on Strike

Date: 09 1959
Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul.
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Deering Works

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of the Fullerton Avenue side of the Deering Works (factory) building. Two cars are parked just inside the factory gate. Before 1902, the buil...
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Construction Workers and Supplies

Date: 1969
Description: Several construction workers at World Trade Center construction site.
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Construction near City Hall

Date: 1911
Description: East Water Street at Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is in the background. At the left is the Waldheim and Company Department Store of 407-411 East Water Stree...
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Hamilton Works Office

Date: 03 28 1933
Description: Two automobiles are parked on the street in front of International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory office.
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Naval Armory Under Construction

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Construction scene of the new Naval Armory in the 1000 block of East Washington Avenue.
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Construction of the Enzyme Laboratory

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Construction scene of the new enzyme laboratory at 1710 University Avenue.
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Madison Fire Station Number 8

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: The nearly completed Madison fire station number 8, 409 North Street. There is a man on the roof holding a rope.
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Bettendorf Tank Arsenal

Date: 1942
Description: Construction site showing an additional to an International Harvester factory, probably the company's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal.
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Gun Carriage at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1941
Description: Milwaukee Works foremen and supervisors posing in front of a "high-speed, modernized gun carriage." At the right is Superintendent V.A. Guebard, and next t...

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