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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated winter scene with Sylvester Dankoler (b. 1895) standing on ice and mounds of snow near a broken pier along a shoreline. The shadow of the photogra... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
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| Description: | View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a... |
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| Description: | A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background... |
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| Description: | Left side view of a brand new ice harvesting machine sitting on a frozen lake covered with snow. The machine is sitting over tracks and cuts in the ice, pr... |
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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: | View across ice on Lake Mendota towards men using long poles to maneuver ice up to the conveyor belt to the Conklin Ice House. |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
| Date: | 04 24 1936 |
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| Description: | Men are working on a project at the State Fish Hatchery. There is new concrete lining a raceway in the foreground, where a man is working on the floor. Woo... |
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| Description: | Three men are standing in or near the door to an ice fishing shack. One man is holding a fishing pole, and another man is standing in the open doorway of t... |
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