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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Dump trucks and steam shovel of the S.P. Croft Company, a road contractor from Milwaukee, at work at an unidentified Wisconsin site. |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff. |
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| Description: | A steam shovel moving sand and gravel in a quarry. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati... |
| Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t... |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Shovel operator Joe Hermanson in the cab at the new Sears Roebuck store under construction on East Washington Avenue. |
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| Description: | View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black... |
| Date: | 04 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Water flows through a diversion channel around the Tenney Park lock and dam construction site. A man is standing in the foreground and pointing towards men... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and a hat stands on a mound of dirt in a road with an automobile on his left and a steam shovel on his right. The steam shovel has a s... |
| Date: | 03 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
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| Description: | A man is on a walkway on top of a mechanical conveyor belt machine that is loading sand and gravel into the bed of a truck. A steam shovel is visible in th... |
| Date: | 05 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Collapsed back wall of Netherwood's Printing Co., at 519 State Street. |
| Date: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Work on the new Tenney Park lock and dam is progressing on schedule. A temporary spillway (not shown) has been built to divert the Yahara River from the co... |
| Date: | 10 19 1925 |
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| Description: | A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine. |
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