Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
Date: | 02 06 1912 |
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Description: | Exterior of International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works) with a snow-covered street in the foreground. |
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Description: | The Oneida Street (East Wells) power plant, on the north side of Wells and east of the Milwaukee River. Presently, the building is the Milwaukee Repertory ... |
Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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Description: | High water on the Wisconsin River has submerged the coffer dam and trestle. Two pile drivers remain in place. Log pilings are floating near the western sh... |
Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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Description: | Two men are standing on the tracks of the newly constructed railroad extension to the construction site of the Prairie du Sac dam. Behind them, the tracks... |
Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen standing on damaged and partly submerged railroad track on the west shore of the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 11 05 1911 |
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Description: | A diver and team working to inspect the coffer dam for underwater damage caused by flooding. |
Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
Date: | 03 03 1912 |
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Description: | Two women and a man posing among the timber pilings near the east shore of the river. Wooden concrete forms and two buildings are in the background. |
Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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Description: | A diver posing with other workmen at the power dam construction site prior to assessing underwater damage. |
Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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Description: | Men working from the elevated road on the east end of the power dam, constructing shots (chutes) for the concrete. |
Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen pouring concrete from the elevated railroad into forms below. |
Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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Description: | Forms have been removed, revealing the newly poured buttresses and apron. A man is pushing a cart on the elevated road. |
Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen posing outside the dining hall before dinner. |
Date: | 06 16 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of steam powered pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. |
Date: | 06 30 1912 |
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Description: | Newly poured concrete buttresses and apron at the east end of the power dam on the downstream side. |
Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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Description: | An overview, from the west bank, of the power dam construction site. The high trestle is in the background, and the narrow gauge electric railroad is in th... |
Date: | 07 25 1912 |
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Description: | A boy posing in the excavation site for the power house within the coffer dam. He is standing on the narrow gauge tracks; the high trestle is in the backgr... |
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