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: | 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: | 11 21 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view within the coffer dam showing four steel draft tubes; wooden supports are visible inside one of the tubes. |
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: | 03 11 1914 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking east from the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. Recently completed buttresses are in the foreground, with earlier stages of constructio... |
Date: | 10 11 1914 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking east across the power house, lock, and uncompleted portion of the dam. The concrete plant is seen on the far bank. The rising water o... |
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: | 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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