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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing telephone wires. |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting... |
| Date: | 07 27 1988 |
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| Description: | Cousins set up a road-side stand to sell fruits and vegetables grown by their grandfather. |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their Internationa... |
| Date: | 08 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Street scene with a Shell gasoline station, the Kitty Korner Kafe, and a phone booth in early morning fog. |
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| Description: | View of rural Blue Mounds, with a two-lane, paved road. The caption at the bottom reads: "East View of Blue Mounds, Wis. Elevation, 1760 ft.". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot with two sets of railroad tracks in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from road of the Buena Vista House. There is a utility pole in front with many wires attached. This Greek revival inn was erected in 1843 by Samuel R.... |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
| Date: | 08 1924 |
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| Description: | Trees and electric power lines are along a road. There are two automobiles being driven in opposite directions on Dixie Highway. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Exterior of International Harvester's General Office for Great Britain. The building included a showroom, service station, and parts and machine warehouse.... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Construction worker talking in a telephone booth. |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Workmen with the City Line Department use an International Model 63 truck to erect a power line or telephone pole near a bridge. |
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| Description: | The first depot built in Milwaukee, it served the Milwaukee & Waukesha Railroad which became the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad and eventually the Chicag... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior of building. A large advertising sign is on the right side, behind a large smokestack. A smaller sign stating "For Rent O.J. Schenck" has been h... |
| Date: | 11 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Marjorie White of 25 East Dayton Street wearing a fur coat and head scarf while using what is alleged to be the first 24-hour, outdoor-accessible pay phone... |
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| Description: | View toward a boy with his bicycle at the entrance to Putnam Hill Park on the left. There are telephone poles and trees in the center, street railroad trac... |
| Date: | 10 1980 |
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| Description: | Municipal pumping station, corner of Main Street and Military Road. A telephone booth is on the right. |
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| Description: | A view of houses, with a Christian church in the right foreground. A car is parked in front of the church. Poles with telephone or electric lines are along... |
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