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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
| Date: | 09 10 1987 |
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| Description: | A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day. |
| 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: | 04 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Two Lafayette County tar tank trucks park in front of Max Lehman's house, 1724 Park Street. |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Breese Stevens Athletic Field, with lights on tall poles, and a chain link fence along the sidewalk. View looking toward E. Washington Avenue with Simon Br... |
| Date: | 08 26 1929 |
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| Description: | Laying gas mains on University Avenue to Shorewood. |
| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Power and Light Co. building, 122 W. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
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| Description: | Two horses pull a street waterer. When Main Street was a dirt road, the local merchants paid to have it sprinkled during the summer to keep the dust down. ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Shawano County Highway Department garage. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pumping station with a tall smokestack. Caption reads: "Pumping Station, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 26 1906 |
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| Description: | Menomonee Valley looking southeast from about N. 27th Street and W. St. Paul Avenue. A Milwaukee Gas Light Co. gas holder is on the left. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in bushel baskets on Capitol Square during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in the 300 block of West Main Street during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill toward the building which has two large smokestacks. The Lake Michigan shoreline is on the left. In front is a landscaped area with... |
| Date: | 12 01 1948 |
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| Description: | A tree planting project was started on the northeast side of East Washington Street of hard maple trees, which replace other species and provide for wideni... |
| Date: | 10 06 1949 |
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| Description: | The Town of Madison's new building houses the town offices, garage, and fire department. There is a pond in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men load boxes onto an International D-300 truck owned by the City of Santa Ana. The truck was used for garbage removal. One man stands in the bed of the t... |
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| Description: | View of the Whiteface Mountain Highway Toll Station, and three cars parked nearby. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Worker spraying Elm trees with DDT pumped from a tank hitched to the back of a vehicle equipped with a snow plow. |
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