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| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Morgan L. Martin standing in a landscape, with a dog sitting at his feet. |
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| Description: | Spearing sturgeon at the dam in Kilbourn. There is a man with a sturgeon on a spear in the foreground, and another man with a spear is in the background. A... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View of a bridge, dam and mill. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound branch of the Pecatonica River to run ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Color drawing of beavers working on and living at their dams. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 06 30 1916 |
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| Description: | Three men attempt to pull a giant fish onto shore using a rope. A dam spans the length of the river in the background. Red text in the upper left corner be... |
| Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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| Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
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| Description: | A woman sits with a kitten in her lap near a dam. This dam is probably the log dam on the Black River. In the background, the boarding house for Spaulding ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Black River Falls after the flood of 1911. Several men and youth are visible in the foreground, in addition to the new dam construction. |
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| Description: | View of the steel Whittemore bridge passing over a dam. A man stands on the side of the dam and a horse and rider is crossing the bridge. On the shore st... |
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| Description: | Drawing of beavers building a dam. |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, built in 1918. The view from across the Wisconsin River shows the company building, a dam, as w... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Rustic wooden dam and bridge between two of the Eau Claire Lakes in southwest Bayfield County. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View looking down on construction site of a dam. Two pulley-operated hoists are erect. Men pose from the top of the dam. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Beaver Canning Company of Randolph, Wisconsin, packers of peas and sweet corn, with three beavers perched on a branch overhanging the wat... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water of a stone building next to an earthen dam on the La Crosse River. There is an archway on the side of the building at the river ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Color postcard with three illustrations: The Williams Free Library, the dam in 1841 (actual beavers), and the present dam. Captions read: "Greetings From B... |
| Date: | 11 16 1929 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view towards an unidentified man standing in the doorway of a simple wood frame, single story building. A sign on the roof identifies the... |
| Date: | 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the fish hatchery building at Manitowish Waters, seen on the left, with a portion of the rooftop sign. The log dam and "fish way" are in t... |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of cows standing in a river. An old foundation is in the background on the far shoreline, near a bridge or dam. |
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