Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 38

Photograph

Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

Date: 
Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
Photograph

Cornell Dam and Powerhouse

Date: 1913
Description: Dam and hydroelectric power house, with a billowing smokestack and a crane in the background.
Photograph

Hoisting Machine Loading Pilings on Barge at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 03 1911
Description: Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance.
Photograph

Concrete Mixers and Hoisting Crane, East End of Power Dam

Date: 10 17 1912
Description: Concrete plant at east end of the dam, showing the mixers, crane, and a rail car at the abutment.
Photograph

Erecting Gate Guides in Power House at Power Dam

Date: 11 02 1912
Description: Workmen using a crane to erect the gate guides for the power house.
Photograph

Pile Coated with Sand at Power Dam

Date: 03 11 1913
Description: Workers posing by a piling coated with sand suspended from a crane.
Photograph

Crane Hoisting Gravel into Concrete Mixer

Date: 05 31 1912
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.
Photograph

Construction of Merriman Dam

Date: 10 04 1946
Description: Men work with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in construction of the Merriman Dam. The tractor was owned by S.A. Healy Co., White Plains, Ne...
Poster

International Trucks Hoover Dam Poster

Date: 1931
Description: International poster featuring testimony from the builders of the Hoover Dam in their use of International trucks. The poster has two photographs of trucks...
Photograph

Wilson Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction, looking south. Three large cranes can be seen on the dam over the Tennessee River. Caption reads: "Wilson D...
Photograph

Wilson Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction. Three large cranes are on the dam over the Tennessee River.
Photograph

Wilson Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction. Three large cranes are on the dam over the Tennessee River.
Photograph

Factory and Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view across dirt road of a paper mill on the shore of the Chippewa River next to a concrete dam. The mill has a tall smokestack. On the far shorel...
Photograph

New Dam

Date: 1913
Description: View looking down on construction site of a dam. Two pulley-operated hoists are erect. Men pose from the top of the dam.
Photograph

C.W.P. Company

Date: 1927
Description: Elevated view over dam of the site of the Cornell Wood Products Company. On the opposite shoreline is a pulpwood stacker, tall smokestack, water tower, and...
Photograph

Dam Construction

Date: 1967
Description: "Construction of the dam in Theresa Marsh."
Photograph

International Model A-8 Dump Truck

Date: 1931
Description: An International Model A-8 dump truck works on the Grand Coulee Dam construction site.
Photograph

Grand Coulee Dam Construction

Date: 1936
Description: Men using International trucks during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
Photograph

International Truck at Grand Coulee Dam

Date: 1934
Description: An International truck is loaded with soil on the Grand Coulee Dam construction site.
Photograph

Riverside Crew

Date: 1958
Description: A riverside crew is alerted of a payhauler's descent during construction on the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: