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Parker Pen Company

Date: 07 1936
Description: Cars are parked on the street in front of the 1915 brick Parker Pen factory and office building. There is a large water tower on the left. The building was...
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Speed Queen Building

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across street towards automobiles parked in front of a two-story brick office building with a long, one story factory wing. There is a water tower beh...
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Paper Mill

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across field towards a bus sitting in the driveway in front of a large factory complex, which has a water tower and three smokestacks. "Airport 2 Mi."...
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Quarry at Devil's Lake

Date: 07 1936
Description: A worker is pulling a wheelbarrow behind him while walking alongside a narrow gauge railroad track at the south end of the East Bluff near Devil's Lake. Em...
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Paper Mill

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across field towards large smokestack towering above the complex of buildings at the Niagara paper mill. On the far right, water is flowing through th...
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Sand Mine

Date: 07 1936
Description: A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine.
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Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company

Date: 07 1936
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...
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Milwaukee Coal Yards

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of vast piles of coal dominate this scene of the Milwaukee Harbor. A bridge crane is in the center, with two other cranes at the far left. Th...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across harvested field shocks of grain towards the long, two-story brick Carl Marty & Co. factory, featuring a large smokestack and a water tower. The...
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Knitting Mill

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across street towards vines covering the walls of the two-story brick factory building housing the Oconto Knitting Mills. A painted sign on the buildi...
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Office Building

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across street towards a two-story, long brick building with a raised basement and awnings over the windows. The building houses the offices of the Fai...
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Kraft Phenix Plant

Date: 07 1936
Description: Vines are growing on the side of the brick Kraft Phenix cheese factory building at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Edison Street. Raised letters on the frie...
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Ojibwa Graves

Date: 07 1936
Description: Wooden roof-like grave covers and fences mark the graves in a Madeline Island cemetery. There is also a wooden cross on the right. Originally named St. Jo...
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Edgewood High School

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across lawn towards the school building.
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Elevated View of Downtown Madison

Date: 07 1936
Description: Handwritten on back: "From 10th floor of Tenney Building." There is a clock tower and dome on the building in the foreground along Pinckney Street and King...
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Forest Products Laboratory

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across field towards the Forest Products Laboratory.

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