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Skelgas Trailer
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Three-quarter view from left rear of a Skelgas trailer, showing two gas tanks, being pulled by an automobile, parked in front of Suburban Gas & Appliance Co., 1923 Monroe Street.
September 28, 1938
Waste, Elwin G., 1902-1957
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Skelgas Trailer
September 25, 1938
Skelgas trailer, with two gas tanks being pulled by an automobile, stopped in front of Suburban Gas & Appliance Co., 1923 Monroe Street.
Imogene Boggs
October 3, 1944
Miss Imogene Boggs, membership chairman of the Business and Professional Women's Club, standing next to her truck. She was the owner of the Suburban Gas and Appliance Company and the only woman dea...
Every House Appliance Co. Car and Trailer
August 13, 1936
Parked automobile with Every-House Appliance Co. trailer-hitched, and advertising that reads: "Every House Needs Westinghouse," in front of the Westinghouse distributor at 114 E. Main Street.
New U.W. Heating Plant
February 18, 1959
Exterior of the recently completed University of Wisconsin heating plant on Charter Street.
212-218 North Bassett Street
October 29, 1954
Exterior view of 212-218 North Bassett Street, Hyland-Hall & Company (plumbing, heating and sheet metal contractors) and Evans, Reuschlien & Co., electrical contractors, Division of Hyland-Hall & C...
Pharo Heating Company
August 2, 1954
Exterior view of the Pharo Heating Company building, 1302 Regent Street (corner of Orchard and Regent Streets).
