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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Mechanic inspecting a part from a Farmall tractor in a repair shop. A tool rack is in the background. The shop is likely part of an International Harvester... |
| Date: | 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Two blacksmiths at work repairing Farmall tractors in the shop of at the Harvey See Shop in Bates City(?). |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mechanics working inside the service center of an International Harvester dealership. The door of one of the trucks is painted "McCormick-Deering Store." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Mechanic taking apart a tractor engine in the service department of the Snake River Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. An Internatio... |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and ... |
| 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: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 12 27 1940 |
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| Description: | Mechanic demonstrating products to a group of mechanics in the work shop, Schultz Tire and Battery Service, 1336 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 05 26 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men inspecting an automobile on the RITE-Way wheel aligning and axle-straightening machine at Schultz Tire and Battery Co., 1336 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 08 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Greg Kabat, University of Wisconsin football player, shovels dirt from the back of a truck at Camp Randall. |
| Date: | 08 16 1930 |
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| Description: | A mechanic employed by Capital Garage, 608-612 East Washington Avenue in Madison, greases the wheel bearings of an automobile on the hoist. |
| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | The Capital Buick Co. machine shop, 750 E. Washington Avenue, with two mechanics repairing an automobile. |
| Date: | 08 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are working on the heat tunnel construction for the Lake View TB sanatorium. 1202 Northport Drive. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. Men are pouring a cement floor. |
| Date: | 07 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch. |
| Date: | 07 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch. |
| 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... |
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