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| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 12 1930 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Bock Oil Burner Company work in the machine shop. |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
| Date: | 07 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger 30-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane. The stenciling on the crane reads "Pawlin... |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag... |
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| Description: | View of the engine room at the Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 18 A partial view of the engine room where the electricity ... |
| Date: | 05 12 1939 |
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| Description: | International P-40 power unit under a shed at a sawmill. Logs are piled near the sheltered work area, and a man works beside them. |
| Date: | 05 19 1938 |
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| Description: | A man uses a Hebard shop mule owned by White Way Laundry to haul three-wheeled bins of bagged laundry. The shop mule, powered by an International P-12 powe... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Byron Jackson Deep-well Turbine in a shed. The turbine was powered by an International P-12 power unit. Next to the turbine are water outlets to an irrigat... |
| Date: | 09 17 1937 |
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| Description: | A.C. White, contractor, stands near a rotary water well rig powered by an International P-12 power unit mounted on a truck. |
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| Description: | View of the engine room at the Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads: "No. 18 A partial view of the engine room where the electricity ... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a dining area of a restaurant. A waiter is visible through a doorway on the left. |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman with a broom is standing behind a large piece of twine machinery and is cleaning it with a broom. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind h... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman is crouching next to a large piece of twine machinery cleaning it. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind her the room is filled with mach... |
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| Description: | A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background... |
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| Description: | Left side view of a brand new ice harvesting machine sitting on a frozen lake covered with snow. The machine is sitting over tracks and cuts in the ice, pr... |
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| Description: | Sid in darkroom with a cigar in his mouth, rolling a miniature, printed cut-out version of himself through a photographic print wringer in a darkroom. Sid ... |
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