Date: | 03 1911 |
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Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
Date: | 03 1911 |
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Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
Date: | 04 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th... |
Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen standing on damaged and partly submerged railroad track on the west shore of the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 03 03 1912 |
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Description: | Two women and a man posing among the timber pilings near the east shore of the river. Wooden concrete forms and two buildings are in the background. |
Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
Date: | 02 08 1913 |
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Description: | A winter view with workers posing with brush mats at the power dam construction site. The gate guides and high trestle form the background. |
Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 10 10 1913 |
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Description: | Workers posing with roof trusses on the power house, 85 feet above the water level at the Prairie du Sac Dam. Note the brickwork in progress. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
Date: | 05 28 1911 |
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Description: | Men posing on a barge carrying a steam powered pile driver at work on the coffer dam for the construction of the powerhouse. Caption reads: "Driving Sheet ... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Group portrait of four people standing in front of a wire fence on the edge of a cliff, with trees and a valley in the background. Walter Alexander stands ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the steamer Ellen Hardy at dock. Text on the bottom left reads: "'Ellen Hardy' at Pr-Du-Sac. in 1870." The Ellen Hardy belo... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Power House at the Dam." Elevated view of the powerhouse, which is a very large brick and concrete structure next to the Prairie du S... |
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