Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Stack of logs with the caption "Piles to be used for extending R.R. to dam site." |
Date: | 11 03 1914 |
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Description: | An elevated view of the Gate Piers at the power dam. Men are working on top of the dam. Farm buildings and bluffs are on the opposite shoreline. |
Date: | 03 1913 |
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Description: | View down steep hill at an ice gorge on a river at a power dam. |
Date: | 03 19 1913 |
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Description: | A view of an ice gorge on the north side of a power dam. The opposite shoreline is on the left. |
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: | 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: | 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: | 03 12 1914 |
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Description: | Office force and foremen posing in front of the south side of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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Description: | Forms have been removed, revealing the newly poured buttresses and apron. A man is pushing a cart on the elevated road. |
Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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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: | 09 30 1912 |
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Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
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: | 07 27 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. The outline of the coffer dam is easily seen. Three steam-pow... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | View of bluff taken from below. Caption reads: "Rattlesnake Bluff at Loddes Mill Sauk Co., Wis." |
Date: | 06 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen pose during construction of the temporary steam power plant at the Prairie du Sac dam. These engines provided electric power for the construction ... |
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: | 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: | 05 28 1913 |
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Description: | Cooks posing in the kitchen at the power dam workers' camp. |
Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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Description: | Receding flood waters reveal destruction of the railroad extension to the power dam construction site. |
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