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Dam at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright dammed a small stream on the property to create a water garden and to ensure water could be se...
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Dam and Pond at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The dam and pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright dammed a small stream on the property to create the pond and to ensure water could be ...
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Line of Prairie du Sac Power Dam Looking West

Date: 1911
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...
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Main Office and Cement House at Power Dam

Date: 1911
Description: Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed.
Photograph

Erecting Pile Driver for Railroad Extension to Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon...
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Pile Driver and Cenrifugal Pump at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 1911
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.
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Kitchen and Dining Rooms at Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Newly construced kitchen and dining rooms at the construction camp for the dam on the Wisconsin River. The kitchen building has three ventilators on the ro...
Photograph

Mill Dam

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of the Mill Dam at the convergence of Lake Wisconsin and the Wisconsin River.
Postcard

The Dam

Date: 1911
Description: Colorized postcard of an elevated view across a dam towards a factory on the Rock River. Dwellings are on the far bank on the right. Caption reads: "The Da...
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Dam before 1911

Date: 1911
Description: View from shoreline looking across the dam in front. Black River Falls is on the opposite shoreline, with several wooden structures, including the power ho...
Photograph

Flood Reconstruction

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of buildings, a railroad bridge, and in the foreground people standing on what may be a dam over the river.
Postcard

Dam on the Eau Claire River

Date: 1911
Description: Colorized photograph of a dam on the Eau Claire River, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "Dam on the Eau Claire River, Eau Claire, Wis."
Postcard

The Dam on Fish Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View upriver towards the dam on Fish Creek. There is a small building on the left bank just above the dam.
Photograph

Dam Ruins

Date: 1911
Description: The wreckage of an old dam on the French River.
Photograph

Quetico River Dam

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang guiding their canoes through a shallow passage by a dam on the Quetico River. The passage contains many logs and rocks.
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The Gang in the Quetico River

Date: 1911
Description: Five of The Gang standing among rocks and logs in the shallow portion of the Quetico River. They are standing next to their canoes, which are loaded with s...
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Fallen Tree on Quetico River

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang guiding their canoes through a shallow portion of the Quetico River near a dam. There is a fallen tree across the river.
Photograph

Quetico River Dam

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang guiding canoes through shallow water past a dam in the Quetico River.
Photograph

Old Dawson Trail Dam

Date: 1911
Description: An elevated view of the bridge and dam on the Old Dawson Trail at the end of Sturgeon Lake. The dam was built in 1873 by Simon Dawson.
Photograph

The Dawson Dam

Date: 1911
Description: A view of Dawson Dam from below Tanner Lake.

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