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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across fields towards the Genoa Dam on the Mississippi River. Tree-covered hills are on the left. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877. |
| Date: | 02 1956 |
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| Description: | This 1956 map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, dams, airports, par... |
| Date: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Work on the new Tenney Park lock and dam is progressing on schedule. A temporary spillway (not shown) has been built to divert the Yahara River from the co... |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Two teen boys and an adult stand in ankle deep Black Earth Creek (west of Cross Plains) while working together to build a "V" shaped conversion dam, pointi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color postcard aerial view. Caption reads: "'Glen Lock' at Irvine Park, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin." Caption on back reads: "This view from Irvine Park show... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-24 — Dams & Levees." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 owned by Hardaway Co. of Columbus, Ga. at work on the Clark ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Mirror Lake, below the dam at Timme Mill. Trees and foliage cover the banks and overhang the water. The one lane high reverse metal truss bridge, commonly ... |
| Date: | 04 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Water flows through a diversion channel around the Tenney Park lock and dam construction site. A man is standing in the foreground and pointing towards men... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View from front of an International heavy duty truck at Glen Canyon dam site. The truck appears to be part of the R-line. A man is sitting in the driver's ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Beautiful Dam at Taliesin, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Loyd Wright. Spring Green, Wisconsin." The pond at Taliesin, the home of Fran... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Viroqua, Wis." On reverse: "U.S. Government Dam on the Mississippi River." A cargo barge is about to pass through lock... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'Capt. Herb Droste' and the 'Josephine,' Wisconsin Dells, Wis." A tour boat and the captain, moored at the Dells Boat Company dock wi... |
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