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| 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: | 07 27 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. The outline of the coffer dam is easily seen. Three steam-pow... |
| Date: | 08 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
| Date: | 03 11 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing by a piling coated with sand suspended from a crane. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near the generators inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. The base of the generators is marked with the name of... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers maneuvering a load of gravel into a concrete mixer at the plant on the east bank of the river. The east abutment is in the foreground, left. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
| Date: | 05 28 1911 |
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| Description: | Men posing on a barge carrying a steam powered pile driver at work on the coffer dam for the construction of the powerhouse. Caption reads: "Driving Sheet ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison bleachers at Camp Randall Field undergoing weight test for proper load. They should support 6900 pounds per girder with max... |
| Date: | 08 09 1949 |
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| Description: | State and University of Wisconsin officials join in ground-breaking ceremonies for additions to the Wisconsin General hospital. left to right: Governor Osc... |
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| Description: | An interior view of partially-built dressing court, showing men working at roughing in plumbing to floor drains of the bathhouse at Devil's Lake State Park... |
| Date: | 11 18 1937 |
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| Description: | A man operating a Brookville locomotive powered by an International P-12 power unit while two men are working behind him at what appears to be a constructi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction, looking south. Three large cranes can be seen on the dam over the Tennessee River. Caption reads: "Wilson D... |
| Date: | 05 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Breaking ground for the new Christ Presbyterian Church are John Wimberly, son of the pastor, and Miss Minnie Winifred Hastings, 420 S. Brooks Street, a lon... |
| Date: | 10 29 1963 |
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| Description: | Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi... |
| Date: | 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Arville Schaleben, with a camera case strung over his shoulders and a mosquito net on his hat is standing near workers who are constructing a log building.... |
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