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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Workmen working on the Herbert F. Johnson Residence, "Wingspread," designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The building was completed in 1937. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Construction workers at the Johnson Wax Building. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Workers working on the construction of the drafting studio at the Taliesin Fellowship Complex used by the Taliesin Fellowship. The Romeo and Juliet windmil... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Constuction workers working on the construction of the drafting studio at the Taliesin Fellowship Complex. The roof trusses and stone walls are in place. C... |
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| Description: | Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ... |
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| Description: | A work crew raising the bents of a barn framing system using pike poles. A valley is in the background beyond the hill where the barn is being constructed. |
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| Description: | Dahl took a series of pictures of barn raisings, one of many community activities he photographed. Here the crew is installing a top plate on the side wall... |
| Date: | 02 24 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing in front of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. This is one of two "work days" the men donated to the ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Workers during the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of construction workers and stone carvers/cutters (some of them probably Italian) showing the detailed sections of the building of the State Historica... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Interior of State Historical Society of Wisconsin during construction. Image shows bricks used in the building and workers. |
| Date: | 12 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking southwest from alley toward West Main Street with construction worker in unfinished ba... |
| Date: | 12 28 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north with construction workers in unfinished basement. Also shows side of Wisconsin T... |
| Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north across basement and first floor. Also shows side views of Y... |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north across basement and first floor with part of the second floor under construction... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | View of the bridge under construction, with a crane atop the structure. Eight men are standing on scaffolding below the bridge. The Nicolet Paper Company ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A business woman clutching her purse and a newspaper walks past a large portion of concrete with "One Man, One Job" painted on it. This is at the site of t... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Silhouette of a construction worker and construction cranes at the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group of barn raising participants posed in front of the structure in progress. |
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