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Madison Gas & Electric Company Electric Power Plant

Date: 06 20 1961
Description: Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View includes power plant, smokestacks, electric-line towers, and cars ...
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Power Plant

Date: 06 20 1961
Description: Exterior view of Madison Gas & Electric Company Blount Street electric power plant. View is across the railroad tracks and includes the power plant, smokes...
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Wisconsin Power and Light Company Sub-Station

Date: 1929
Description: Power plant machinery in the Wisconsin Power and Light Company substation.
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"Lawn Scout" Rotary Power Mower

Date: 04 25 1956
Description: "Lawn Scout" rotary power mower, taken for Graybar Electric Company, 103 North Park Street.
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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 Gas & Electric

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Description: Smoke is pouring out of three smokestacks at Madison Gas & Electric.
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Electric Light Plant

Date: 1908
Description: View across railroad tracks towards stone buildings and a smokestack. Caption reads: "Electric Light Plant, Mazomanie, Wis."
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Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior

Date: 02 22 1946
Description: Madison Gas & Electric Company plant, showing stairway, ceiling beams and machinery, at 115 South Blount Street.
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Electric Substation and Nearby Farm

Date: 07 29 1963
Description: View of a rural electric substation, with a nearby farm in the background.
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Vacuum Tube Parts

Date: 1917
Description: The completed internal parts of a vacuum tube (power tube).
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Wisconsin Power & Light Co. — Linemen and Polemen

Date: 04 12 1946
Description: Group portrait of linemen and polemen, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, at the Park Hotel.
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Wisconsin Power and Light Co.

Date: 06 15 1945
Description: Group portrait of C.L. Turner, traffic supervisor for Wisconsin Power & Light Company, and six female employees of Wisconsin Power & Light Company, 122 Wes...
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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 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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Wisconsin Power & Light Company — Veteran Employees

Date: 04 11 1946
Description: Wisconsin Power & Light Company banquet for Veteran employees at the Hotel Loraine.
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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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Dane County Electric Co. Window Display

Date: 03 17 1927
Description: Dane County Electric Co. display window, showing a Delco Light washing machine and Frigidaire refrigerator, at 112 King Street.
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Gas and Electric Utility Display

Date: 06 1936
Description: The Gas and Electric Utility display at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House.
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House at 2010 E. Washington Avenue

Date: 09 27 1934
Description: House at 2010 E. Washington Avenue, which was wired by Cirves Electric.

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