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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A surveyor conducts work at the construction of the World Trade Center. He is at work before the building located at 210 Washington Street. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Five men surveying land across a road. They're standing near a barbed wire fence. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a group of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory workers. John Bordner is in the center of the top row. Stanta Bordner is beside him. Uppe... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory. |
| Date: | 04 23 1937 |
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| Description: | Sand barrens being used for poor crops. Note on back of print reads: "This should be in timber." |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A.L. Webster takes notes in a notebook while using tools to do surveying work in a field. Another man stands holding a rod in the background near what appe... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "Surveying Crew on McArthur Rd. Sunny Brae farm is in background." |
| Date: | 07 14 1958 |
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| Description: | This is a Tellurometer, a microwave surveying instrument. The operator is Don Reed, field man for Alster and Associates, Washington, D.C., which completed ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 02 02 1960 |
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| Description: | The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A class of engineering students practicing surveying in front of Science Hall, located on the University of Wisconsin (Madison) campus. Eleven engineering ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Original map made with watercolor and inkwash. Includes a legend of buildings, roads, natural features and other details of the lodge. Inset at bottom has ... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a very tall bur oak towering over nearby houses at the corner of Main and Franklin Streets. There is a small monument at its bas... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A segment of the trunk of a pine bears the scars of a "blaze" carved with an ax and bearing the inscription: "XIX T. J. Cram, D. Houghton Aug 11, 1841." C... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A large, spreading bur oak standing directly in the intersection of Hammond and Hanerville Roads, both unpaved. There is a row of smaller trees lining Hane... |
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