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| Date: | 02 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a group of men holding shovels pausing and looking toward the camera. Behind them is a railroad train in deep snow. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a Wisconsin & Michigan train pushing through snow. Men are shoveling snow in front of it. Smoke is billowing from the front of the train. |
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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: | 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: | 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck for Robin Hood Flour. The truck bed has a stake body, and is filled to the top with sacks of flou... |
| Date: | 12 11 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck parked in front of a brick building. The hood of the truck is wrapped with a quilted co... |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck with an exposed truck bed. In the background are industrial buildings and oil wells. |
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| Description: | View towards a man sorting mail in a truck with a sign on the side that reads: "U.S. Mail R.F.D." There are four mailboxes on wooden posts on the left, and... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A Madison Gas and Electric Company worker probing for gas leaks with a meter on the Capitol Square after two explosions rocked downtown Madison, killing tw... |
| Date: | 12 11 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked in front of a storefront in Canada. On the front of the truck, and on top of the hood is ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A mailman is trudging through the snow with his loaded mailbag. A city street and buildings are barely visible through the snow. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for John Trumble's photography studio which, at the time, also included an art gallery and a store for camera supplies and antiques. The post... |
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| Description: | Men are working along the side of a brick building removing snow from against railroad cars. |
| Date: | 03 03 1916 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view towards two men working near railroad cars and a brick building. One man is holding a shovel, and the other man is standing at the t... |
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