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| Date: | 11 02 1918 |
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| Description: | Residential building site near railroad tracks, looking west. Several houses are under construction. Benham was a "company town" created by International H... |
| Date: | 10 29 1934 |
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| Description: | New employees dormitory under construction at Lake View Sanitorium. |
| Date: | 05 01 1931 |
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| Description: | State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction. This is a side view, with two posters advertising: "10 Nights in a Barroom" at the Orpheum T... |
| 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: | 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: | 07 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Basement of State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction. Facing East along Wilson showing the Madison Club. |
| Date: | 12 17 1929 |
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| Description: | View up hill towards the construction site of the Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which is nearing completion. Snow is on the ground. The building is ... |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Dane County Tuberculosis Sanitorium under construction, at 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor. |
| Date: | 12 17 1929 |
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| Description: | View up hill towards the Dane County Tuberculosis Sanitorium, with construction nearing completion, as seen from the front. Snow is on the ground. 1202 Nor... |
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| Description: | A work crew raising the bents of a barn framing system using pike poles. A valley is in the background beyond the hill where the barn is being constructed. |
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| Description: | Dahl took a series of pictures of barn raisings, one of many community activities he photographed. Here the crew is installing a top plate on the side wall... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 03 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man posing among the timber pilings near the east shore of the river. Wooden concrete forms and two buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of steam powered pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. |
| 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: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Completed east portion of the first story of the generator room of the power house. Forms are in place at the west end. |
| 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: | 10 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing with roof trusses on the power house, 85 feet above the water level at the Prairie du Sac Dam. Note the brickwork in progress. |
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