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| Date: | 10 21 1960 |
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| Description: | A Madison street department crew cleans leaves from the gutter along Mandan Crescent using a leaf vacuum machine as neighborhood children watch. Workers ar... |
| Date: | 07 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A group of six smiling postal workers are listening as Floyd Switzky, center, reads the news that Congress voted to override President Eisenhower's veto of... |
| Date: | 07 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Switch-throwing ceremony for the new electric sub-station in Sun Prairie on Market Street. Five men are standing in front of the transformer and other equi... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison Park Superintendent James G. Marshall throwing the switch to turn on the new Vilas Park merry-go-round. Show (L-R) with Marshall are park crew memb... |
| Date: | 04 25 1979 |
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| Description: | A truck is moving along a tunnel, with a rotating scrub brush attached to its rear scrubbing the ceiling of the tunnel. A man is walking on the opposite si... |
| Date: | 06 30 1989 |
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| Description: | Many people are sitting on folding chairs. An infant is sitting on a blanket on the floor next to them and playing with stacking cups. Caption reads: "TOYI... |
| Date: | 02 27 1958 |
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| Description: | Horses from the Vilas Park merry-go-round are being checked before returning to summer use by Angelo Traino (left), a city parks department employee, and J... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the near east side dominated by the smokestacks of Madison Gas & Electric. Snow is on the rooftops of buildings, and chimneys are spewing ... |
| Date: | 01 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards two rows of trucks parked in a lot facing each other. The signs painted on the trucks reads: "Allen County Highway Department." Men are sittin... |
| Date: | 08 07 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards five trucks parked in a row at an angle. Two men are sitting in the driver's seats of two of the trucks. In the background is a large, brick b... |
| Date: | 04 01 1926 |
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| Description: | A group of men are in the back of a truck which is carrying equipment in Canada. Two men are sitting in the front seat, with one man driving the truck. |
| Date: | 08 31 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked on a cobblestone street. In the background is a building under construction. The signs painted... |
| Date: | 08 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Switchboard at City of Madison water well no. 4 pumping station, 5 N. Randall Street. |
| Date: | 01 12 1938 |
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| Description: | Rear view of highway tarring tank truck with spreader bar down, taken for William Gunnison, road contractor, Middleton. |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Two New York City street cleaning trucks parked in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 02 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Gas & Electric Company, showing metal floor and stairway, windows and beam arrangement, 115 South Blount Street. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a man driving a tractor pulling an oil burning tar kettle on a trailer. Subject: "Inter. Super A — Municipalities." Where Taken: "MW." I... |
| Date: | 04 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Two Taylor County tar tank trucks parked in front of Max Lehman's house, 1724 Park Street. Taken for William Gunnison, road contractor, Middleton, Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "Municipalities." Where Taken: "MW." Information with photograph reads: "Ready-Power Generator Set, UD-18A powered in plant of Department of Publi... |
| Date: | 08 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Electric switchboard at Dependent Children's Home. |
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