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Madison Gas and Electric Steam Plant

Date: 1924
Description: Aerial view of a Madison Gas and Electric steam plant.
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Madison Businesses

Date: 1929
Description: Photograph composite of Madison businesses including Gisholt Machine Company, French Battery and Carbon, Fuller & Johnson MFG., Oscar Mayer, Burgess Batter...
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Shoreline in Madison

Date: 1897
Description: A view of Madison from a lake shoreline. Unknown location.
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Madison Gas & Electric

Date: 
Description: Smoke is pouring out of three smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
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Concrete Block Machine

Date: 03 12 1929
Description: View of a machine that makes concrete blocks at Madison Silo Company.
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Concrete Block Machine

Date: 03 12 1929
Description: Concrete block machine as seen from the front, at Madison Silo Co.
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The "Spirit of St. Louis"

Date: 1928
Description: Charles Lindbergh's airplane, "Spirit of St. Louis," while visiting Madison.
Poster

Fight Madison Gas and Electric Rate Increase

Date: 
Description: Graphic depiction of the MG&E plant showing stacks releasing smoke into the air. Text reads "FIGHT! the MADISON GAS & ELECTRIC rate increase".
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Madison City Railways Crew

Date: 1911
Description: Streetcar and crew of the Madison City Railways Company. The streetcar number is #50 and the route sign says Wingra Park.
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Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior

Date: 02 22 1946
Description: Interior view of the Madison Gas & Electric Company, showing metal floor and stairway, windows and beam arrangement, 115 South Blount Street.
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Madison Gas & Electric Co.

Date: 02 22 1946
Description: Madison Gas & Electric Company. View from above of machinery to be removed, top floor of the generating plant, 115 South Blount Street.
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Airplanes at Madison Airport

Date: 06 14 1930
Description: View from inside a building, perhaps a hangar, towards five airplanes, standing at starting line, at Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North Street ...
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Airplanes at Madison Airport

Date: 06 14 1930
Description: View from building towards five airplanes, parked in a line outdoors, at Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North Street and Kedzie Street.
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Bacteriology Building

Date: 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Bacteriology Building, in process of construction on campus. There are cars in a parking lot in the foreground.
Book or Pamphlet

Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company

Date: 
Description: Illustration of the Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company plant.
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Madison Gas & Electric

Date: 01 1977
Description: View across railroad tracks towards smoke rising from the buildings and smokestacks of Madison Gas & Electric. Snow is on the ground.
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Madison Industrial District

Date: 12 14 1931
Description: Aerial view of Madison industrial district taken from the top of the Madison Gas and Electric Co. gas tank looking south west down the 600 and 700 blocks o...
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Madison View from Lake Monona

Date: 
Description: View across water towards the shoreline of the eastern isthmus of Madison, including the MG&E power plant smokestacks. A group of people appear to be fishi...
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Smokestacks

Date: 01 1977
Description: View looking up towards three of the main smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
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Madison Rug Factory Truck

Date: 12 07 1933
Description: Company truck for the Madison Rug Factory at 8 S. Livingston Street, with advertising for cleaning, resizing, remaking, weaving, and shampooing services.

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