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| Date: | 01 13 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of State Historical Society of Wisconsin, under construction, showing the first floor of building, with Music Hall in the background. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers lay a pipeline in a field using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and sideboom. Original caption states: "Jones & Hannahan." |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
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| Description: | A view on men resurfacing rural sections of U.S. Highway, with machinery and a small train running alongside the road. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats pouring cement from a bucket into a wooden form to build a foundation for a silo. Behind them is a farm building. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men working on the construction site for a new silo. Three men work in a pit to establish the foundation, and three other men work in the background near a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers pose at the entrance of the old bridge. There are railroad tracks in the foreground with signs that read, "free bridge," "men working," and "cautio... |
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| Description: | In the afternoon, nothing Overnight, unseen In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers sending telegrams for more |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of three workmen building a stone wall next to a shed. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a railroad crew laying tracks. The ties are in place and the rails are being positioned on the first level. The bank behind the crew is terr... |
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