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| Date: | 05 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Progress on the power house construction, with the east portion of the wall complete, and men working on forms for the rest of the wall. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen on temporary walkways among reinforcing bars on the roof of the power house. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Power dam construction workers pausing during a meal in the camp dining room. Oil lamps are hanging from the ceiling; overhead electric lights are also ins... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks. Features an illustration of men using an International heavy-duty truck at a subway construction site, a list ... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 02 28 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers assembled with construction materials south of the power dam at Prairie du Sac. Three men in suits are on the right. The smokesta... |
| Date: | 03 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. Recently completed buttresses are in the foreground, with earlier stages of constructio... |
| Date: | 03 12 1914 |
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| Description: | Office force and foremen posing in front of the south side of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| Date: | 03 12 1914 |
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| Description: | The office force and foremen posing before the south facade of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| Date: | 10 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east across the power house, lock, and uncompleted portion of the dam. The concrete plant is seen on the far bank. The rising water o... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir... |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of bricklayers posing with the tools of their trade in front of an unfinished brick wall at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Note the wooden form for a... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two men hauling rocks with International truck models W-1. The crane in the background has a sign that reads: "Garrick Bros. Inc. St. Paul, Minnesota". |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a steam shovel filling the back of an International truck with dirt at an airport construction site. |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the forms for the east shore abutment at the power dam site. |
| Date: | 04 22 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
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