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| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School. |
| Date: | 02 15 1915 |
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| Description: | Townspeople and a Ford automobile in front of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama. The original caption reads: "This school house at Alpine, Ala., is a... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mr. J.E. Waggoner, International Harvester Company Agricultural Extension Dept. employee, delivering roadside alfalfa lecture to a crowd of farmers arrivin... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ... |
| Date: | 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Stump-studded field with farm buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Men stand around an International Harvester Mogul 12-25 tractor in a farm field to watch a plowing demonstration. |
| Date: | 08 25 1927 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly N.B. Frankensteen, operating a horse-drawn side delivery hay rake on the N.B. Frankensteen Ridgebrook Farm. Farm buildings are in the backg... |
| 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: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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| Description: | High water on the Wisconsin River has submerged the coffer dam and trestle. Two pile drivers remain in place. Log pilings are floating near the western sh... |
| 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: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing on and in front of the steel draft tubes. The gate guides are visible on the right. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 02 28 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers assembled with construction materials south of the power dam at Prairie du Sac. Three men in suits are on the right. The smokesta... |
| Date: | 10 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east across the power house, lock, and uncompleted portion of the dam. The concrete plant is seen on the far bank. The rising water o... |
| 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: | 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: | 07 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
| Date: | 08 24 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men in a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor and an experimental cotton picker. Original caption reads: "McCormick-Deering Cotton Picker and Fa... |
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