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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern Railway crossing on Monona Bay, the site of the old MX tower. |
| Date: | 12 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Alice Ferguson, Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) home services director, is shown with the many varieties of Christmas cookies, candies, cakes, and hou... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of a house to be used in an advertisement for home and subdivision development. The current address of this home is 3736 Sargent Street. |
| Date: | 11 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of open Norwec Transmitter. A telephone equipment photograph, taken for an REA calendar, published by Wisconsin Electric Cooperative, alterna... |
| Date: | 09 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five men representing regional electic and telephone cooperatives attending a meeting at the Edgewater Hotel. |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Frank E. Nordeen, a state engineering employee, pointing to the main electric switchboard in the State Capitol building basement, while standing next to an... |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | View of the main copper lines that bring power into the State Capitol building through a tunnel from the state power plant. Four connecting points are visi... |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Leon A. Hendrickson, supervisor of services, pointing to a blower which is used to send air into the tunnel carrying power lines from the state power plant... |
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