Date: | 09 1980 |
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Description: | A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure. |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Station manager Ron Nicols and an International Scout truck with plow outside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio station headquarters. WVLR shared quarters with C... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Office of author August Derleth, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio's (WVLR) unofficial consultant on the history of the Sauk-Prairie area. Derleth's novels and s... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Radio announcer Del Viney on the air inside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station during the dinner music show. Caption reads: "Dinner Music Show is a... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | James Kirchstein, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station chief engineer and originator, inside his recording company, Sara Sound Productions, Inc. WVLR... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Teenagers studying and playing pool at the Eagle's Nest, a popular teen hangout in downtown Sauk-Prairie. The Eagle's Nest had a juke-box, but the WVLR (Wi... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Two buildings: a post ofice and a livery stable/feed store. A man is exiting the post office. Sign on livery stable reads: "Livery Feed and Sale Stable." C... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The land and house were donated to the village. The club house is still in use (1964) as a publicaly owned building for recreation and meetings. Image show... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | View across yard of house with large group of people gathered on porch posing for photograph. |
Date: | 02 18 1960 |
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Description: | Two young women looking at a wine making tool. Winery operated from 1867 to 1899. It later became a dance hall. Excerpt from Sauk Prairie Star, Sauk City, ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View towards the front of a house with a white fence. Posing in front of the fence are a man (appears to be on crutches), a young child, and a dog. Other p... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Front view of Cummings-Cooper house with woman standing in front. The house was owned in 1940 by Mrs. H.F. Leindorff. The house was built in 1857. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | View from across road of Baxter House, a two-story wooden structure. A man is sitting on the roof working on the chimney. A bell tower is seen behind the r... |
Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work. |
Date: | 03 1911 |
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Description: | Construction workers posing during construction of the main office at the Wisconsin River dam site. |
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 1911 |
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Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
Date: | 04 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th... |
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