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| Description: | Elevated view down Broadway from Mason Street showing buildings, horse-drawn vehicles, and power lines. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of West Water Street from Grand Avenue of horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, storefronts and power lines. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Right side of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot with houses and electrical towers in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Intersection of Janesville Plan and North Cape Road, with telephone poles lining North Cape Road and cars parked on the side of Schunbrino's Saloon. |
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| Description: | The Oneida Street (East Wells) power plant, on the north side of Wells and east of the Milwaukee River. Presently, the building is the Milwaukee Repertory ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company. |
| Date: | 01 09 1883 |
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| Description: | A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Light factory district. The street is 44 feet between curbs, with vitrified brick pavement. Telephone poles line the road. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A group of men carrying lunch boxes are walking away from a steam engine train, which is near another train and power lines. |
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| Description: | Intersection of two gravel roads. Telephone poles, some with posters stapled to them, line the sides of the road, and residential housing and fields are vi... |
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| Description: | A residential footpath along a rural street. It crosses a small stream with a bridge. Homes are visible in the background and telephone poles run alongside... |
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| Description: | A group of boys gathered around a telephone pole on a street corner, captioned: "Inquisitiveness: Getting an Electric Shock." A boy on the left has some ki... |
| Date: | 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops, looking southwest from North 4th and West Cherry Streets toward the central YMCA building. |
| Date: | 04 20 1959 |
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| Description: | An electrical or telephone lineman, is using a burlap bag while attempting to rescue a cat perched on a power pole. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | 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 d... |
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