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Bruemmer's (or Brummer's) Dam and Pond

Date: 1905
Description: View of pond with rocky shoreline. Caption reads: "Scene on Bruemmer's Pond, Algoma, Wis.".
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Dam at Dells Pond

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Description: Front view of dam and waterfall at Dells Pond. There is a building on the left of the dam. People are fishing from a boat on the pond.
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Dam at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright dammed a small stream on the property to create a water garden and to ensure water could be se...
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Dam and Pond at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The dam and pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright dammed a small stream on the property to create the pond and to ensure water could be ...
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Mill and Pond

Date: 1904
Description: A view of the mill and pond landscape of Sleepy Hollow.
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Prairie Dells Dam Site

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Description: Two views of the Prairie Dells dam site including the pond, the falls and the power house.
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Mill Dam

Date: 1922
Description: View of a mill dam's pond with open area and hills in the background.
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Dam and Bridge

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Description: View across reservoir of a bridge over a dam.
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Municipal Light and Power Plant

Date: 1924
Description: The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond.
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Scene on Mill Pond

Date: 1913
Description: Landscape of buildings and a dam along the shoreline of the pond.
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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.
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Elevated View of Dam

Date: 1912
Description: Wooden flood gate of a dam. Water pours over the gate down into a reservoir. There are signs on either post advertising the interstate fair in La Crosse on...
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Mill Dam

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Description: A wooden dam from across a reservoir. There is a bridge nearby.
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Beaver Dam

Date: 1932
Description: View from shoreline of a pond that has formed behind a beaver dam.
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Yahara River Spillway at Lake Mendota

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Description: View across pond towards three boys standing on the board walkway of the spillway at Lake Mendota and the Yahara River. In the background is the far shorel...
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Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1905
Description: View upstream towards five young men and boys posing on the flooded bridge at Dates Mill as water rushes from the swollen mill pond into French Creek. Anot...
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Parfrey's Mill and Dam

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Parfrey's Mill and Dam. Richland Ctr. Wis." A grist mill, dam and millpond on the Pine River. More buildings are behind the mill. The...
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Hyde's Mill

Date: 1988
Description: Text on front, at the foot: "Wisconsin." The color image of Hyde's Mill has an overlay of a map of the southwest corner of Wisconsin inside a red frame. Th...
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Mill Race & Dam

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Mill Race & Dam, Rome, Wis." The dam that creates Rome Pond on the Bark River. Buildings can be seen on the horizon.
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Greetings from Spooner

Date: 1960
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spooner, Wis." Text on reverse: "Looking north on this aerial view one can see the State Fish Hatchery in the foregrou...

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