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| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction, from Lake Monona. The photographer's shadow and railroad tracks are in the foreg... |
| Date: | 02 03 1931 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction. |
| Date: | 03 02 1931 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction. |
| Date: | 06 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Basement of State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction, facing towards Wilson Street. |
| 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: | 08 15 1911 |
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| Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
| Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen standing on damaged and partly submerged railroad track on the west shore of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
| Date: | 03 19 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the wreckage of the high trestle caused by flooding and ice. The concrete plant is visible on the far bank. |
| Date: | 06 29 1913 |
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| Description: | View from the west bank of the Wisconsin River showing progress on the power dam. The narrow gauge track is visible in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power house from the southwest showing progress of the brickwork. Two railroad cars are standing on the railroad extension. Workers ar... |
| Date: | 11 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the hill, looking northeast at the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. Much of the brickwork has been completed. Concrete forms for t... |
| Date: | 03 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. Recently completed buttresses are in the foreground, with earlier stages of constructio... |
| 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: | 02 28 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, looking east, of the power house, lock, and dam on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 08 06 1911 |
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| Description: | A view following the lower trestle to the west bank. The construction camp buildings, including the office and temporary power plant are seen on the left. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
| 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... |
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