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| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Farm Utilities Company, located at 124 S. Butler Street. (A Trachte building.) |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view north of Wells Street with a bridge on the right. Two large smokestacks, and a tall building with a clock break up the skyline. On the left is a bil... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down road of overhead lighting equipment of the T.M.E.R. and L. Company, which, at the time had a proposal to be replaced by more modern lighting. Th... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Furrier manufacturing building. Nearby is a gas station promoting "Standard Oil Products". A Coca-Cola sign is near the entrance to the sta... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large pile of coal sitting under a tarp, with an empty truck waiting nearby. Industrial buildings and water towers are across the river.... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from pier or dock of buildings along the Milwaukee River, including a building with a clock tower. Signage on brick exteriors reads "J.C. Iverson Co. ... |
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| Description: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
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| Description: | View down Water Street, with billboards advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. There is also a bridge ... |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man stands near the backs of billboards on the left along a street or alley. Power lines lead to the horizon, over what appear to be businesses or indust... |
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| Description: | View across the Milwaukee River, showing advertisements for the Riverside Printing House, Book and Job Printing, Spring Street Lager Beer Hall, and Hood an... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the front of the Hotel Ogden located at 149 East Wilson Street. Three men wearing suits are relaxing on the porch, with two men sitting on... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Panoramic elevated view to the east from the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | View from snowy shoreline of Highway Bridge, the east approach. The lake is frozen. Just beyond the shoreline a boat is moored at a landing, and an automob... |
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| Description: | View across water towards the shoreline of the eastern isthmus of Madison, including the MG&E power plant smokestacks. A group of people appear to be fishi... |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Pumping Station on the riverfront. Central Jefferson is in the background. There are billboards on the right, with one that r... |
| Date: | 08 31 1927 |
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| Description: | View down street towards two men sitting in two delivery trucks. A large building is in the background. A sign on the truck in front reads: "Churchill Drug... |
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