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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down main street with storefronts on both sides, with large power lines along the sidewalks stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background... |
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| Description: | Several men in safety harnesses pose on and around a utility pole. One of them is holding a small child. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 06 10 1911 |
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| Description: | Dining rooms and kitchen at the camp on the construction site of the Prairie du Sac dam. Workers and children pose in front of the dining rooms; there are ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 04 22 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed driving a Cub Cadet tractor. This close-up captures one of Butch's hands on the steering wheel and the... |
| Date: | 02 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Third and fourth graders from Longfellow school putting on a "quiz show" about electricity and lights that they have been studying. Joanne Tewalt (left) is... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of downtown at the intersection of 8th and Washington Streets. The Manitowoc County Courthouse is at the right. Residences and churches can ... |
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| Description: | Street scene of road going through a business district with cars and horse-drawn vehicles parked along the curbs. Storefronts and power lines are along the... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A crane and a truck in a clearing between a road lined with telephone poles and a row of houses. On the right near the truck a man is working. The license ... |
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| Description: | A group of boys gathered around a telephone pole on a street corner, captioned: "Inquisitiveness: Getting an Electric Shock." A boy on the left has some ki... |
| Date: | 06 1903 |
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| Description: | Syl and other children watch a dog perform with a barrel on a wooden sidewalk near a small building. Railroad tracks cross behind them, and power lines str... |
| Date: | 06 1903 |
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| Description: | A group of children watching a performing dog jump towards aunt Helen. Railroad tracks, power lines and horse-drawn carriages are visible in he background. |
| Date: | 06 1903 |
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| Description: | Syl, with a large group of children and adults, watches a trained dog perform. A man wearing a hat in the right foreground appears to be the trainer. Railr... |
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| Description: | Panoramic street view, with small groups of people scattered about, and standing on the sidewalks near buildings lining the unpaved street. On the sides of... |
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| Description: | A carousel, aeroplane, penny arcade, and other rides stand inside an amusement park. There is a lawn at the center of the image and people surround the amu... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Several people stand and fish off of a pier while a boy sits in a sailboat and another stands on shore. Trees and power lines are visible in the background... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A woman and a girl are using an electric washing machine to clean clothing or bedsheets in a basement. The machine is powered by a DELCO-Light Plant system... |
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