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| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Two Madison Gas and Electric Company workmen checking pipes on Main Street in downtown Madison after two gas blasts and fires rocked downtown Madison, kill... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A Madison Gas and Electric Company worker probing for gas leaks with a meter on the Capitol Square after two explosions rocked downtown Madison, killing tw... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Workmen from Madison Gas and Electric Company work on Main Street at the Capitol Square to check for gas leaks after two explosions rocked downtown Madison... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Gymnasium annex undergoing demolition on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is on the left. Three men are working... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Gymnasium annex undergoing demolition near Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A man is working in the lower center of t... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Large stacks of oak barrel heads and staves curing outdoors at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Workman at Hess Cooperage setting rivets in a barrel hoop. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess installing finishing hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using spokeshave on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot of Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The gymnasium annex in course of demolition. There ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a crozing machine to shape an oak barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Five Madison city lifeguards that were assigned to prepare the Breese Stevens Field for the All Star high school football game. Left to right are: Glenn Wi... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Hess Cooperage, working at machines that are milling oak lumber into staves for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, finishing the exterior of a barrel on a cooper's lathe. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. watching a machine set hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A person is shoveling dirt in front of the bu... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Man with a shovel standing in a ditch in front of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation to place the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Tony Hess using a truss hoop driver to install hoops around a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. Also known as "trussing". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Employees of Hess Cooperage quarter log sections for barrel-making. The man standing in the middle of the image is Joe Hess. |
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