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| Description: | View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unl... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the construction site of the Glander Building on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washington Streets. A masonry crew is constructing the foundati... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a group of children standing in front of the Glander Building under construction on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washingto... |
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| Description: | View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin... |
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| Description: | Findorff Lumber & Supply Company Truck #4. Two men are loading or unloading supplies. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
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| Description: | A soldier carrying supplies to the headquarters, preparing to head to the front. |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man using a McCormick Deering hoist. A group of men are manually setting a lamppost or other object onto a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Successful relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Hos... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, preparing the new concrete foundation for the "Blue Dragon Urn," which was relocated from Sid Boyum's backyard to the pu... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, standing by the "Smiling Mushroom" and a new concrete foundation that he poured for the "Blue Dragon Urn." Both sculptur... |
| Date: | 05 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Barrels of supplies to stock area fallout shelters being unloaded at the City-County Building by work relief program participants and Huber law prisoners f... |
| Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Adolph Frederick Schmidt sitting at his bench, working on a leather harness in his shop at 304 East Main Street. He started his career as a harness maker i... |
| Date: | 08 03 1957 |
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| Description: | "Wisconsin" - the statue atop the State Capitol building's dome. A painter is hanging from the statue's neck by a climbing rope, pulleys, and a bench while... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to install a telephone pole on a city block. Other men are standing at the front of the ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Two Madison Gas and Electric Company workmen checking pipes on Main Street in downtown Madison after two gas blasts and fires rocked downtown Madison, kill... |
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