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| 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: | 1929 |
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| Description: | International dump truck and a power shovel or crane next to a large trench or quarry. There is a building in the background. The sign on the shovel reads:... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International dump truck through a construction site. |
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| Description: | Pedestrians on sidewalk. The street is full of rubble and appears to be under repair or construction. Construction workers are also working in the street. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men at work on a bridge under construction. A sign on a building in the background reads: "Drake Brothers Co." and "Drugs • Oils • Paints." |
| 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... |
| 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: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
| Date: | 01 09 1913 |
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| Description: | Men are standing in the completed draft tubes after removal of the steel forms. |
| 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: | 07 11 1926 |
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| Description: | A shovel, or excavator loads dirt into an International Model S truck. The text on the wooden cab of the shovel appears to read: "Marion Shovel - Model 21"... |
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