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| Date: | 09 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of University of Wisconsin-Madison Heating Plant employees, members of Wisconsin State Employees Association Heat & Water Local 171, organiz... |
| Date: | 07 05 1961 |
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| Description: | A man is bending over to drink from a metal water fixture. Water from the fixture spouted up and back onto the fixture, supposedly making it "sterile." The... |
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| Description: | A man is operating a drill to connect a house to a water supply. |
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| Description: | A man is operating a drill to create a well near a home under construction. |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag... |
| Date: | 06 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Leon A. Smith, Madison's water superintendent since 1916. |
| Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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| Description: | A crowd lining up at a drinking fountain (bubbler) in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con... |
| Date: | 10 31 1976 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a tennis court situated on top of the Madison Water Utility pumping station at Reynolds Park, which is on Livingston Street between East D... |
| Date: | 04 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Water Softener Service, Inc. employee, Kenneth Olson, unloading a portable water softener tank from a specially designed truck. Water Softener Service, Inc... |
| Date: | 11 16 1989 |
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| Description: | View from the Water Street Bridge over the Waupaca River toward the Waupaca Water Department. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International I-4 industrial tractor with crane owned by the Milwaukee Waterworks. Original caption reads: "The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased thi... |
| Date: | 06 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Gail Habermann is shown in front of city hall using a new type of public drinking fountain called an 'angle jet' which replaces the old 'bubbler' type. The... |
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| Description: | View up West Water Street from Grand Avenue with street cars. |
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| Description: | Water tower (built 1875), with St. Mary's Hospital behind it on the left. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Front view of pump room, side of part of Boiler Room. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Water Works. A little boy is riding a tricycle in the foreground. |
| Date: | 10 12 1938 |
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| Description: | International P-30 power unit owned by the Darlington water works. The unit pumped 500 gallons per minute. |
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