Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | Cutaway view of the building that housed the first electrical station created to distribute incandescent light electricity. |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | View of commercial buildings. One of the buildings has a sign painted on the side that reads: "Fleming's Jewelry Store." Several of the buildings have awni... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company generating plant and dam. |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
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Description: | Exterior of the Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, built in 1918. The view from across the Wisconsin River shows the company building, a dam, as w... |
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Description: | Letterhead of Wolf River Lines, a telephone company in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, with telephone poles and wires spanning a river with silhouettes of buildings ... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Farmers' New Era Telephone Company of Hebron, Illinois, with a female switchboard operator wearing headphones sitting near a window with ... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Hager City Telephone Company of Hager City, Wisconsin, with a line of telephone poles and wires connecting a man in a business suit sitti... |
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Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, with a three-quarter view of a man driving an electric cable car marked "State St." under a... |
Date: | 11 01 1966 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird distributing his campaign literature outside the Marathon Electric plant gate. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Panoramic elevated view to the northeast from the Capitol Square. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A National brand automobile is stopped on the side of an unpaved road as a horse-drawn buggy approaches from the rear. The car is pulling a racing yacht on... |
Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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Description: | Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr... |
Date: | 01 13 1914 |
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Description: | A policeman, center, keeping an eye on bystanders as firemen on ladders fight a fire at the Wisconsin Building on State Street. The building housed the Com... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | A very large white oak tree standing along County Trunk Highway S dwarfs a utility pole nearby. There is a barn across a field in the far background. The t... |
Date: | 07 24 1910 |
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Description: | View of a power plant and dam on the Fox River. Caption reads: "High Falls Power Plant." |
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