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| Date: | 10 02 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, looking northeast, showing scaffolding around building and Findorff Builders s... |
| Date: | 10 02 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, showing steel framework and scaffolding and Findorff Builders sign, 1513 Unive... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, showing scaffolding around building and Findorff Builders sign, 1513 Universit... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, showing workers on the roof, 1513 University Avenue, look... |
| Date: | 06 07 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building. The foundation is under construction, showing engineering shop buildings in the background. 1513 U... |
| Date: | 07 02 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, showing steel framework, 1513 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 01 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, showing steel framework, 1513 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 02 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building under construction with steel framework visible, 1513 University Avenue, looking northeast. |
| 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: | 11 03 1914 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the power house with the Allis-Chalmers generators installed. |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | East Water Street at Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is in the background. At the left is the Waldheim and Company Department Store of 407-411 East Water Stree... |
| 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 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: | 08 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site from the west, showing the elevated trestle, coffer dam, and steam pile drivers. The concrete plant is vis... |
| 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. |
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