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Aerial View of City Along River

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the city and the river.
Photograph

North Side from the Air

Date: 1931
Description: Aerial view looking north, with a small portion of the West Side (left), nearly all of the North Side and part of the business district of the East Side. A...
Postcard

Dells Pulp and Paper Company

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of the dam and the mill, with some trees in the foreground. A railroad bridge is in the background on the left, and a rail cart or truck is d...
Photograph

Aerial View of Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the town of Wisconsin Dells, the dam on the Wisconsin River, and the generating plant. The town of Wisconsin Dells was known as Kilbourn Cit...
Photograph

Aerial View of Town and Wisconsin River

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells including the Wisconsin River and the dam and generating power plant.
Photograph

Mill Dam on Dell Creek

Date: 1930
Description: View of the mill dam on Dell Creek that creates Mirror Lake in Mirror Lake State Park (although the photograph was taken before the site was designated as ...
Manuscript

Hoover Dam Builders Choose Internationals

Date: 03 1932
Description: Page from International Trail magazine featuring an article about the use of International trucks for the construction of the Hoover Dam. The title ...
Photograph

Dam Dedication Ceremony

Date: 07 06 1937
Description: Dedication ceremony for the dam on the St. Croix River that is now part of the Gordon Dam County Park. Construction on this dam was begun as a WPA project...
Photograph

Hydroelectric Plant at Taliesin

Date: 1932
Description: Exterior view of Taliesin and its hydroelectric plant. Caption on photograph reads, "Dam at Frank Lloyd Wright's Bungalow-Taliesin-near Spring Green, Wis."...
Poster

Union Pacific Railway Travel Poster: Boulder Dam

Date: 1935
Description: An original lithograph promoting the Boulder Dam enroute to California via the Union Pacific Railway. The poster features an aerial photograph of the "Worl...
Photograph

Timme Mill

Date: 1930
Description: A view of the Timme Mill and its reflection in Dell Creek at Mirror Lake. There is a bridge on the right; a wooden building with cupola stands in the backg...
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

Power Dam

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of the power dam on the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac.
Photograph

Smeade's Cloverleaf Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: Variety of buildings reflected in Teal Lake. A wooden rowboat is tied to a pier on the lake. The Teal River is rushing over a nearby dam and along the dirt...
Photograph

Below the Turtle Dam

Date: 1935
Description: Men fishing out of wooden rowboats on the Turtle flowage near the Turtle Dam on the Flambeau River.
Photograph

Turtle Dam on the Flambeau River

Date: 1935
Description: Group of people gathered on and near the Turtle Dam of the Flambeau River. View from the Turtle Flowage side of the dam.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Mill Dam

Date: 1931
Description: Water pouring through a dam into a reservoir. Two workers are on top of a platform over the dam.
Photograph

Dump Truck at Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: An International dump truck empties its load down the side of a canyon during the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Photograph

View from Future Site of Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: Elevated view looking down from the point where the Hoover Dam is to be built. International trucks used roads built into the mountainside to transport bui...

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