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| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 11 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 05 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Durfee Brothers Roofing Co. truck in front of a home, Jos. P. Slightam residence) at 341 West Wilson Street, with a roofer installing shingles on the steep... |
| Date: | 01 17 1934 |
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| Description: | A Johns-Manville Contractors Asbestos Products Company Rock Wool home insulation truck and trailer is parked in front of a house, with workers on ladders a... |
| Date: | 12 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the interior of the O'Sullivan's Karmelkorn Shop, 308 North Henry Street, with a small Christmas tree with tinsel on display in the front window on... |
| Date: | 09 07 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas... |
| Date: | 11 06 1928 |
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| Description: | A worker is using an air hammer with compressor truck to do work on the road in the 800 block of University Avenue, looking west. Wisconsin Foundry & Machi... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Interior of Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, showing a sales counter with a large display of tools. Three clerks and one customer are standing n... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Interior of Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, showing a sales counter with a large display of tools and three clerks and one customer. Alternate ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 10 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Construction of the Coca Cola building at 3536 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot of Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The gymnasium annex in course of demolition. There ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dormitories under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Men are working in different areas on the site. Lake Mendota... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea... |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ... |
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| Description: | Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. A man is standing in the snow-covered yard in the foreground near a sleigh, and a carriage with a sign painted on the si... |
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| Description: | View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of men posing on horse-drawn wagons parked in front of the Conklin Ice House. In the background on the right is Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis... |
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