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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The sprinkling filters under construction at the sewage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lake Shore Lumber Company of Oshkosh's mill waste lumber slab dump. Leander Choate, owner of mill, used this marsh for his waste lumber which was piled at ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke (left) city health inspector, and Lewis B. Kelly (right) president of the Solvit Chemical Corp., are shown as they prepare to scatter the b... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men are scattering barium carbonate rat poison in a city dump located at the end of Fern Drive off Highbury Road near University Avenue. The land was o... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of the water purification plant. A group of men are working on the front lawn of the plant. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 06 1937 |
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| Description: | A planning sketch of the sewage treatment site. The sketch is signed "A Deimel" and dated "June 1936." The text at the bottom of the sketch reads "Sewage T... |
| Date: | 09 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Rubbish pile in front of house in the vicinity of the 1000 block of West Dayton Street and 200 block of North Mills Street. |
| Date: | 09 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Rubbish piles in front of houses in the 1000 block of West Dayton Street and the 200 block of North Mills Street. |
| Date: | 02 24 1978 |
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| Description: | "Theresa Waste Disposal System. Village man, Jim Zillmer, checks out sprinkler system." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "Guelig Construction workers put in a disposal system for Widmer Cheese Factory. Workers are from left, Ray Guelig, Herb Sellnow, Bob Guelig, Edgar Guelig,... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | "Brenda Widmer walks her dog Bonnie next to the disposal system. In distance is Sunny Brae farm, site of present-day Schnitzler River View Hills mobile hom... |
| Date: | 05 1980 |
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| Description: | "On a hillside off McArthur Road, waste water from Widmer Cheese Factory is dumped into a ridge & furrow disposal system." |
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| Description: | View across garbage and waste around a pool of water towards a fire burning in a landfill. Trees are along a ridge in the far background. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Solid waste, some of it burned, scattered on the ground in a landfill next to a road along the left side. In the background are trees and a hill. |
| Date: | 09 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Signs protesting city annexation activities and city extension of services to the 21st ward, greeted city garbage and rubbish truck drivers as they made th... |
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