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Skillet Creek Dam

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Description: Elevated view of dam at Pewit's Nest on Skillet Creek.
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Spillway at Mill Pond

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Description: Spillway at millpond between 1940 and 1946.
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Dam at Taliesin

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Description: Men working near the dam and hydro house at Taliesin, the summer residence of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. The hydro house was designed ...
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Bruemmer's (or Brummer's) Dam and Pond

Date: 1905
Description: View from dam looking down river. A large building is in the background. Caption reads: "Looking Over Brummer's Dam, Algoma, Wis."
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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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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.
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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming.
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Dam on Soft Maple Creek

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
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Soft Maple Creek Dam

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
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River Scene, Mayville, Wis.

Date: 1905
Description: View from shoreline towards a river with a dam in the distance. Caption reads: "River Scene, Mayville, Wis."
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Dam near Steep Hill

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Description: View from shoreline of dam on Kickapoo River. There is a steep hill on the left, and both sides of riverbank are covered with trees.
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Paper Mill

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the ...
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Old Mill Dam

Date: 1910
Description: Water-level view of the log-built Old Mill Dam on the Missouri River with a steel bridge above. The surrounding riverbanks are grown over with bushes, ivy ...
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Cornfield

Date: 1925
Description: Corn shocks stand in a field with several pumpkins on the ground. There is a stream or river along the field, and in the background is a bridge over a dam...
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Cedar Falls Dam on Red River

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Description: Elevated view of Cedar Falls Dam on the Red River featuring the dam in the foreground and several dwellings standing in the background.
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Scenic View at Augusta

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of a man-made dam. Water pours from the dam into a reservoir creating a waterfall.
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Holcombe Dam

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Description: The Holcomb[e] or Little Falls Dam on the Chippewa River, with rocky shoreline in foreground.
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Power Dam

Date: 1925
Description: View from shoreline of a dam constructed of concrete and wood. On the other shoreline are houses and other wood outbuildings.
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Dam and Fishway at Brookside Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Rustic wooden dam and bridge between two of the Eau Claire Lakes in southwest Bayfield County.
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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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Factory and Dam

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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...

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