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Building and River

Date: 1920
Description: A large building, possibly a mill, next to a river.
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Mirror Lake Dam

Date: 
Description: View upriver towards dam. Buildings on shoreline at left. Sign on roof reads: "Mirror Lake Boats."
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Kilbourn Dam Powerhouse

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Description: Interior view from balcony of Kilbourn Dam Powerhouse. Four men stand at the balcony railing near stairs that lead to the ground floor. Another man stands ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Eau Claire depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, bridges, piers, canals, railroads, and the Chippewa and Eau Clair...
Map or Atlas

Jefferson, Wisconsin, Looking North

Date: 1893
Description: Bird's-eye map of Jefferson, looking north. Crayfish River at left and center, Rock River from upper center to bottom center, joins at left of center; thir...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the Village of Kaukauna, Wisconsin

Date: 12 21 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Kaukauna, from the Appleton Post Annual Review.
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Dam at Taliesin

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Description: Men working near the dam and hydro house at Taliesin, the summer residence of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. The hydro house was designed ...
Postcard

Bruemmer's (or Brummer's) Dam and Pond

Date: 1905
Description: View from dam looking down river. A large building is in the background. Caption reads: "Looking Over Brummer's Dam, Algoma, Wis."
Photograph

Buildings on the Fox at Grand Chute

Date: 1870
Description: View from a hillside of either houses or factory buildings on the Fox River near a dam.
Photograph

Dam at Dells Pond

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Description: Front view of dam and waterfall at Dells Pond. There is a building on the left of the dam. People are fishing from a boat on the pond.
Postcard

Beloit Dam and Power Plant

Date: 1905
Description: View of the dam and power plant over the river, with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "The Dam, Beloit, Wis."
Photograph

Buettner Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun...
Photograph

Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
Print

Flour Mills and Dam in Columbus

Date: 1910
Description: Flour mills and dam.
Photograph

Cornell Dam and Powerhouse

Date: 1913
Description: Dam and hydroelectric power house, with a billowing smokestack and a crane in the background.
Photograph

Bridge and Dam

Date: 
Description: Bridge and dam, with buildings on the far shoreline.
Photograph

Dam on Rock River

Date: 1950
Description: The dam on Rock River.
Postcard

Little Chute Dam

Date: 1910
Description: View across water looking towards the dam. There is a stone wall to the right of the dam, and a building above it. Caption reads: "Section of Little Chute ...
Photograph

Empire Mill

Date: 1922
Description: View of Watertown near the Empire Mill, later known as the Globe.
Photograph

Aerial View of Town and Wisconsin River

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view that encompasses most of the town and part of the Wisconsin River.

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