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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials ca... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 06 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A worker is sorting through the rubble from the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street. People in the ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
| Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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| Description: | High water has scattered timber pilings through the construction camp. The office is on the right; the smokestacks of the temporary power plant are behind ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site from the west, showing the elevated trestle, coffer dam, and steam pile drivers. The concrete plant is vis... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Two women using McCormick-Deering relief tractors in a field damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching into the moving packer arms of a grain binder, while another man is driving a team of horses pulling the machinery across a field at the ... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching in between reels on a grain binder hitched to several horses on the farm of Peter Ricker. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is climbing on a moving harvester-thresher (combine), illustrating an agricultural hazard for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man pouring ashes from a bucket into a larger metal container. |
| Date: | 04 1926 |
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| Description: | A man climbs the base of a windmill at Cutten Farms. Fences, a farm building, and a silo are around the windmill. |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man putting a tractor belt on a pulley while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard. Taken at International Harvester's Hinsdale experi... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is working on silage cutter knives while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard. |
| Date: | 12 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is pushing a running belt off a pulley on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm, demonstrating a farm hazard. |
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