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Power Plant
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Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokestacks, a truck, and a crane.
June 20, 1961
Stein, George H., 1913-2004
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Madison Gas & Electric Company Electric Power Plant
June 20, 1961
Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View includes power plant, smokestacks, electric-line towers, and cars parked on the street.
Madison Gas & Electric Company Power Plant
August 5, 1953
Madison Gas & Electric Company Steam Turbine Station and Substation, 115 South Blount Street, view from South Livingston Street.
Railroad Tracks
1975
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 distance.
Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior
February 22, 1946
Madison Gas & Electric Company plant, showing stairway, ceiling beams and machinery, at 115 South Blount Street.
Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior
February 22, 1946
Interior view of the Madison Gas & Electric Company, showing metal floor and stairway, windows and beam arrangement, 115 South Blount Street.
Madison Gas & Electric Co.
February 22, 1946
Madison Gas & Electric Company. View from above of machinery to be removed, top floor of the generating plant, 115 South Blount Street.
