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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 10 11 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north, with steam shovel and other equipment. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. John... |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. Johnson Street, Holy Redeemer Rectory,... |
| Date: | 08 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Holy Redeemer Catholic Church is in the background. Caption reads:... |
| 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: | 03 1975 |
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| Description: | The First Methodist Church on Wisconsin Avenue in the process of being razed. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | St. Josaphat's Church in Milwaukee under construction. |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1925 |
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| Description: | International heavy duty truck (possibly a model 103) loaded with coal outside the Shera Coil and Oil Company building. In the background is a bridge and ... |
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| Description: | Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of workers building the new Episcopal Church. Workers in hats and overalls, and holding shovels, are standing among scaffolding,... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A man is loading a piece of lumber onto the back of an International D-2 truck owned by Basley's Good Lumber Company. There appears to be a church steeple ... |
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| Description: | View across street towards six men posing, with four of the men wearing aprons and work clothes, and two men in suits holding guns. Beside them on the left... |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | "With the Catholic Church steeple looming in the background, Schuster Construction men work on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | "High over the rooftops of Theresa, Jim Polster and son, Kieth, have the scary job of applying new shingles on the building that houses the fire department... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction of the T-shaped addition on the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters Building, from Science Hall looking southeast. Vehi... |
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