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| Date: | 06 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokes... |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | City Hall on the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue, in the course of demolition. |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A crane is used in the demolition of City Hall on the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the City County Building under construction. Automobiles are parked in the street and a truck with a semi-trailer is parked in front of a ... |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Old City Hall being razed with a crane and wrecking ball. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol under construction during the summer of 1914. One wing is still under construction and the statue "Wisconsin," by Daniel Cheste... |
| Date: | 03 1975 |
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| Description: | The First Methodist Church on Wisconsin Avenue in the process of being razed. |
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| Description: | The erecting floor in the Gisholt Machine Company's shop on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the coal docks on the right, with several ships in the harbor. Caption reads: "Coal Docks, Capacity 100,000 Tons, Two Rivers, W... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the shipyards with the Badger State cement plant in background. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Mapleside, a historic home on University Avenue, being demolished. It is the future location of Burger King. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Excavation for bridge column footings for the Mirror Lake Bridge. |
| Date: | 11 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interstate highway bridge construction at Mirror Lake showing the concrete footings halfway down the embankment. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Large mouse being lifted by crane onto Bennett's Table Talk at 211-213 Broadway. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar back on the track from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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| Description: | G. B. & W. Railroad Bridge and the building of the Hatfield Dam. |
| Date: | 04 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers pose in the plumbing room of the "malleable shop" at Osborne Works. The factory was later known as "Auburn Works." |
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