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Lappley Bros. Lumberyard

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Description: Winter view of exterior of Lappley Bros. Lumberyard and Feed Mill.
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Street Scene

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Description: View down dirt road towards the Lappley Bros. Lumber Yard. There are houses on the right and in the far background. There are horses and carriages parked a...
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Construction Workers Excavating for NYC Subway

Date: 08 19 1925
Description: Workers are removing dirt for the construction of the New York City subway with a Bucyrus shovel loader and an International truck. The workers are below s...
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Office and Company Store

Date: 01 13 1919
Description: Office and company store. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel Company. Wisconsin Steel wa...
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R.F. Lease & Co. Trucks and Equipment

Date: 11 09 1941
Description: R.F. Lease and Co., 209 East Main Street, company truck, with eleven men standing beside their floor sanders. Other business in view, Madison School Supply...
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Fiore Coal & Oil Co. Building

Date: 01 09 1939
Description: Fiore Coal and Oil Company building, 620 W. Mifflin Street.
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Savidusky 's Cleaners Plant

Date: 05 14 1937
Description: Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue.
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State Bank of Wisconsin Addition

Date: 10 22 1929
Description: Workers posing on the balcony of the State Bank of Wisconsin addition under construction, 1 West Main Street.
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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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Inland Lakes Boat Works Workshop

Date: 10 03 1946
Description: Inland Lakes Boat Works basement workshop at the Stadium Garage, located at 1501 Monroe Street. The view includes three men and one woman constructing boat...
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Johnson Wax Building

Date: 1935
Description: Tapered columns in the Johnson Wax Building during construction. Workmen are working on scaffolding built around one of the columns. The building was desig...
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International Model 31 Truck Carrying Lumber

Date: 1922
Description: International model 31 truck carrying lumber for Century Lumber Co. The truck is parked outside the company's warehouse. A man is sitting in the driver's s...
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Four Lakes Cleaners Interior

Date: 01 28 1947
Description: Interior of Four Lakes Cleaners, 612 South Park Street, with work room showing two women pressing clothes, and racks of clean clothes.
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Stanley Lumber Company Offices in Chippewa Falls

Date: 1903
Description: Stanley Lumber Company's office entrance way and porch. Built about 1890.
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F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Plant

Date: 1900
Description: F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Plant. There is a plank sidewalk in the foreground.
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F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Company

Date: 1903
Description: F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Company office and lumberyard.
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Eau Claire Lumber Company

Date: 1880
Description: The Eau Claire Lumber Company, later the Cutter shoe factory. It was still standing in 1931.
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Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates

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Description: Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap...
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Men Using International Feed Grinder

Date: 01 06 1923
Description: Group of men using an International feed grinder outside a lumber office, possibly in Iowa. Some of the men are standing on top of a truck owned by Milo E....
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Unloading Lumber

Date: 03 19 1940
Description: View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste...

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