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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Tripp Memorial Library in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, about 1912. Caption reads: "New Library, Prairie du Sac, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from right side of street towards a house and retail stores lining the left side of Main Street. Caption reads: "Main Street, Prairie Du Sac, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from field towards the high school. There is a small group of people sitting on front steps, and an automobile is parked in front on the left. Houses ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the building. Caption reads: "City Hall and Library, Prairie du Sac, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This was the first bridge built across the Wisconsin River, constructed about 1850, although it was not opened to traffic until 1852. It was torn down in 1... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from across road of Baxter House, a two-story wooden structure. A man is sitting on the roof working on the chimney. A bell tower is seen behind the r... |
| Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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| Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly construced kitchen and dining rooms at the construction camp for the dam on the Wisconsin River. The kitchen building has three ventilators on the ro... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction workers posing during construction of the main office at the Wisconsin River dam site. |
| 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: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Completed two-story wood frame main office building at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly poured concrete abutment on the east shore of the Wisconsin River. Iron reinforcing rods protrude from the concrete. Workmen and the steam-driven cem... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| 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. |
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