Date: | 11 03 1914 |
---|---|
Description: | Interior view of the power house with the Allis-Chalmers generators installed. |
Date: | 1915 |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
Description: | A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 02 28 1915 |
---|---|
Description: | Elevated view, looking east, of the power house, lock, and dam on the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 08 19 1915 |
---|---|
Description: | Elevated view of the completed power house and dam, looking east at the north, or upstream, side of the structure. On the far shore, the site of the gravel... |
Date: | 08 20 1915 |
---|---|
Description: | View of the south, or downstream, side of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. A man is standing on pilings near the bank; the railroad extension is ... |
Date: | 1915 |
---|---|
Description: | Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir... |
Date: | 1915 |
---|---|
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: | 1914 |
---|---|
Description: | A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up... |
Date: | 1914 |
---|---|
Description: | A group of bricklayers posing with the tools of their trade in front of an unfinished brick wall at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Note the wooden form for a... |
Date: | 1915 |
---|---|
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: | 10 17 1912 |
---|---|
Description: | A crowd gathers for the laying of the cornerstone of the Hon. J.S. Tripp Library and Hall. J. Stephen Tripp was a pioneer in Prairie du Sac, a lawyer, and ... |
Date: | 04 14 1911 |
---|---|
Description: | Workers posing inside the forms for the east shore abutment at the power dam site. |
Date: | 04 22 1911 |
---|---|
Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
Date: | 08 06 1911 |
---|---|
Description: | A view following the lower trestle to the west bank. The construction camp buildings, including the office and temporary power plant are seen on the left. |
Date: | 10 12 1911 |
---|---|
Description: | High water has scattered timber pilings through the construction camp. The office is on the right; the smokestacks of the temporary power plant are behind ... |
Date: | 05 17 1912 |
---|---|
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: | 05 31 1912 |
---|---|
Description: | Workers maneuvering a load of gravel into a concrete mixer at the plant on the east bank of the river. The east abutment is in the foreground, left. |
Date: | 07 01 1912 |
---|---|
Description: | A view through the runway (tunnel) cast into the concrete structure of the power dam at Prairie du Sac. |
Date: | 07 16 1912 |
---|---|
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... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: