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: | 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: | 10 17 1912 |
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Description: | Concrete plant at east end of the dam, showing the mixers, crane, and a rail car at the abutment. |
Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen using a crane to erect the gate guides for the power house. |
Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen posing during erection of the draft tubes for the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
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: | 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: | 1910 |
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Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River from a bluff on the west bank. The photograph is undated and does not indicate if it was taken prior to ... |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen posing outside the dining hall before dinner. |
Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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Description: | An overview, from the west bank, of the power dam construction site. The high trestle is in the background, and the narrow gauge electric railroad is in th... |
Date: | 1914 |
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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: | 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: | 06 21 1911 |
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Description: | Looking east over the Wisconsin River showing the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. Two steam-driven pile drivers on barges with construction worke... |
Date: | 07 01 1911 |
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Description: | A steam-powered centrifugal sand pump at work on the Wisconsin River during the construction of the power dam. Pilings of the coffer dam are visible in the... |
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: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
Date: | 08 15 1911 |
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Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
Date: | 11 01 1913 |
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Description: | Wooden forms are in place for construction of the walls of the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. The newly constructed power house is on the left. |
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