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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down towards the Fox river. Caption reads: "Fox River Water Power, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the dam and power plant over the river, with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "The Dam, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dam and hydroelectric power house, with a billowing smokestack and a crane in the background. |
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| Description: | Waterwheel for generating electric power, with men sitting on the log support. It may be the largest in the nation. The waterwheel was built in 1924 by a c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the tower of the Northern Hydro-Electric Power Company on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View from Tower of Northern Hydro-El... |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Dam under construction on the Wisconsin River by the Southern Wisconsin Power Company. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the White Wagon Works and Rock Mills. Caption reads: "White Wagon Works and Rock Mills, Sheboygan Falls, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View upriver towards a dam, and a power house on the right. |
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| Description: | One side of a concrete dam with a railroad bridge to the right, and houses in the background. |
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| Description: | View across water towards buildings along the shoreline. The building on the left has a sign that reads: "Neenah Mills". |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a reproduction of the world's first hydroelectric central station. It is located near the site of the original, which began operation on S... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill toward the building which has two large smokestacks. The Lake Michigan shoreline is on the left. In front is a landscaped area with... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from a hill looking down on the plant which has several attached buildings, and a large chimney. To the right are railroad cars along the shoreline o... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Looking across water and through the locks to a shoreline with a large hill in the background. A building is on the left, a wall and pilings are in the wat... |
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| Description: | Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Berliner & Bruno's Badger State Safe Steam Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the steam works and depot, people ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | This 1915 map of Lincoln County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, cities and villages, lakes and streams, residences, churches, school ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | This map shows the dams and locks of the Fox River between Neenah, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Kaukauna, in Outagamie County. The cities and villag... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the water works, smokestack and water tower. People are lounging under the trees in front. Caption reads: "Water Works, Beloit, ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colorized photographic postcard of an elevated view of the power station next to the river. A bridge is in the background. Caption reads: "Power Station, B... |
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