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| Date: | 09 21 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ... |
| Date: | 05 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing the power house for the addition of a 1250 k.w. turbo generator. A man in the foreground is taking a drink of water from a pail. Benham w... |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Breese Stevens Athletic Field, with lights on tall poles, and a chain link fence along the sidewalk. View looking toward E. Washington Avenue with Simon Br... |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co." |
| Date: | 03 28 1929 |
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| Description: | A crane at work on the First Congregational Church, located at 1609 University Avenue at the corner of North Breese Terrace. |
| Date: | 10 11 1928 |
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| Description: | View looking up Fairchild Street towards the Wisconsin Power and Light building, at 122 W. Washington Avenue, under construction, with a man working near a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Road workers leveling road with International Mogul 45 or 30-60 kerosene tractor and Austin Mammoth Steel Reversible Road Machine. |
| Date: | 04 08 1926 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering no. 7 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard. This model features a bagging platform located high on the machine and a single-whe... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Men working around an International pickup truck parked at a construction site. The truck, possibly a B-120 or B-130, was owned by Carson Contractors. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Co., built in 1914. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Co., built in 1914. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Harvester's Osborne Works factory (later known as "Auburn Works") and the surrounding neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men stand on a street in front of an International Harvester branch house. |
| Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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| Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction workers posing during construction of the main office at the Wisconsin River dam site. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
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