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| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Office of author August Derleth, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio's (WVLR) unofficial consultant on the history of the Sauk-Prairie area. Derleth's novels and s... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Radio announcer Del Viney on the air inside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station during the dinner music show. Caption reads: "Dinner Music Show is a... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | James Kirchstein, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station chief engineer and originator, inside his recording company, Sara Sound Productions, Inc. WVLR... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Teenagers studying and playing pool at the Eagle's Nest, a popular teen hangout in downtown Sauk-Prairie. The Eagle's Nest had a juke-box, but the WVLR (Wi... |
| Date: | 02 18 1960 |
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| Description: | Two young women looking at a wine making tool. Winery operated from 1867 to 1899. It later became a dance hall. Excerpt from Sauk Prairie Star, Sauk City, ... |
| Date: | 08 18 1912 |
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| Description: | Eight cooks posing inside the dining hall. Long tables are set for a meal. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Power dam construction workers pausing during a meal in the camp dining room. Oil lamps are hanging from the ceiling; overhead electric lights are also ins... |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Cooks posing in the kitchen at the power dam workers' camp. |
| Date: | 02 28 1914 |
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| Description: | Sections of turbines inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| Date: | 08 04 1914 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam showing the switchboard. |
| Date: | 08 04 1914 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam, showing assembly of the generators, identified by the manufacturer, the Allis-Chalmers Compa... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near the generators inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. The base of the generators is marked with the name of... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Casual portrait of August Derleth sitting behind his typewriter in his office, with Gaylord Nelson sitting on his desk to talk. |
| Date: | 03 24 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the municipal water plant pump house showing the auxiliary and emergency pump units, powered by an International P-30 power unit. |
| Date: | 02 13 1952 |
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| Description: | The Prairie du Sac High School basketball team plays Lodi on Friday night. If the Prairie du Sac team were to win the game, it would share the Tri-County L... |
| Date: | 08 23 1961 |
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| Description: | The recipe for Savory Cabbage submitted by Mrs. Elmer Elsing, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, was the second place winner in the vegetable category of the Wisco... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Young Disc Jockeys, Mary Speth and Peggy Schaefer, get briefing from announcer, Del Viney. Station strictly limits rock-'n-roll to one hour... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a WVLR radio set, an FM radio that is a special, single-station receiver manufactured and advertised as a "barn radio" whose reception is unaff... |
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