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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 03 17 1927 |
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| Description: | Dane County Electric Co. display window, showing a Delco Light washing machine and Frigidaire refrigerator, at 112 King Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Madison City Water Works pumping station at the intersection of Gorham and Livingston which provided pressure to the city's mains. A group of people st... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Man in the interior of the Black River Falls powerhouse. |
| Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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| Description: | A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A street scene following an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and wires have been brought down by the weight of the ice. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a Baraboo, Wisconsin, alley after an ice storm, possibly March 2, 1922. Utility poles are leaning and their wires sag under the weight of t... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A window display at the Wisconsin Power and Light Company office, 116 Fourth Avenue, features a General Electric refrigerator as "The Gateway to Health" un... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of the Second Empire style Park Hotel at the corner of South Carroll and West Main Streets. There are horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and a smal... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A wooden chest with a sign "[illegible] Cement Work" stands on West Dayton Street near its intersection with Wisconsin Avenue. There is a bucket nearby, an... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The Dane County sheriff's residence, with the county jail behind. A corner of the Dane County Court House is seen on the far left. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Trees broken and bowed under the weight of a heavy coating of ice stand in front of the Al. Ringling home. Limbs litter the snow-covered ground. Ice is on ... |
| Date: | 05 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Seen from the rear, Carl Forsberg, president of Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) company, is addressing a crowd of about 400 shareholders during a meeting a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A cabinet card photograph of the Montello House Hotel. The two-story brick building has a gable fronted wing on the right and a shingled wooden tower on th... |
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| Description: | High humidity and low temperatures cause massive steam clouds to billow from the stacks of Wisconsin Power and Light Company behind a house on Jenifer Stre... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Leonore Middleton, center left, is posing standing along a bridge railing wearing a long winter coat and hat. Other people in traditional Japanese attire a... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View down street towards two buildings in the background that are part of the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, makers of Mirro cookware. The buildings... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Grand (now Wisconsin) Avenue near 18th Street from the second floor of the home of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder. Snow is covering th... |
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