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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the William Ruggles farm with an old farm wagon in the foreground. A number of farm buildings are in the background, with a fence and hill on the... |
| Date: | 01 13 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A billboard displays events at the foot of Bascom Hill from the bottom east side on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Bascom Hall with dome (form... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Man in the interior of the Black River Falls powerhouse. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A building site at 11 West Main Street, next to Gamm's Jewelry Store and Cop's Cafe. Power lines are in the alley in the background. |
| Date: | 08 29 1918 |
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| Description: | U.S. soldiers standing in a street with military trucks parked along a curb near the McCormick Works. The truck bodies were likely built under military con... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Taliesin and its hydroelectric plant. Caption on photograph reads, "Dam at Frank Lloyd Wright's Bungalow-Taliesin-near Spring Green, Wis."... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Steam turbines in the Heat and Power Lab in the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The lab has large windows an... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A line of high-voltage towers march across fields of oats and barley into the distance. |
| Date: | 04 20 1959 |
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| Description: | An electrical or telephone lineman, is using a burlap bag while attempting to rescue a cat perched on a power pole. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A circular contrail forming a halo behind a silhouetted church steeple. Power lines are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 16 1963 |
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| Description: | View down street towards the Menasha railroad crossing and a Roman Catholic Church. |
| Date: | 08 02 1967 |
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| Description: | Mrs. A.V. Miller and James R. Sullivan unveiling the Rural Electrification historical marker together at the dedication ceremony outside of Richland Center... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View of a broken electrical box hanging from the side of a building with peeling paint. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks reflecting the light of the sun at either sunrise or sunset. Silhouettes of cranes, power lines and buildings are in the d... |
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| Description: | The disconnection sways, rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound that vanish in the distance and then appear again a... |
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| Description: | Far out The last report on peace to reach us here was neither a promise nor easy Faith but the hardest of all, the waiting for never an... |
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