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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View from right side of street towards houses and retail stores lining the left side of Main Street. Caption reads: "Main St. Pr.-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: | 02 18 1960 |
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| Description: | Stone building (winery) in winter. Kehl Winery operated from 1867 to 1899. It later became a dance hall. Excerpt from Sauk Prairie Star, Sauk City, 18 Febr... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View along side of bridge over the Wisconsin River, built in 1921 to take the place of the old wooden one when it became condemned. Caption reads: "Wis. Ri... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down middle of unpaved street of the central business district. A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an automobile along the left curb near a gara... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of old toll bridge across the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. The view is looking north toward Sauk County. |
| 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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