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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Raddatz Rockshelter and Natural Bridge, known by archaeologists as 47 SK-5. The bridge is made of sand stone, reaching 35 feet in height, and is the larges... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s... |
| 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: | 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: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 12 29 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the progress within the coffer dam showing concrete forms around the draft tubes and gate guides. The high trestle is seen extending to th... |
| Date: | 08 19 1915 |
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| 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: | 07 16 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, from the west, of the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. Gravel from the quarry was used in concrete for the construction of the power plant and dam. |
| Date: | 06 04 1961 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of a shaded field hollow on George Melanthin's farm. |
| Date: | 11 11 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a large, tree-lined field. In the foreground, a small, bare tree grows amidst thick shrubbery. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam on the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. |
| Date: | 06 09 1929 |
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| Description: | The Nofsinger family poses with their automobile, a Model T Ford. |
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| Description: | An elevated upstream view of a rock formation in the Wisconsin River known as The Ink Stand. |
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| Description: | A vintage view of Loddis Mill and Mill's Saloon, and a modern view of a home in the same location. |
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| Description: | A man poses on a rock formation named "Devil's Doorway" at Devil's Lake State Park. The lake is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young girl wearing a winter coat and hat is standing in a tilled field at the base of Cassell, or Leykauf, Bluff. A description on the reverse of the pri... |
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