Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Electric power
Filter: Subject of transportation
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
| Date: | 10 11 1911 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 03 1907 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The engine of a train stopped at a crossroad, possibly near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 05 20 1905 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a group of miners on horseback crossing a bridge into Fairbanks, Alaska, May 20th, 1905. Houses are on the other side of the river. Captio... |
| Date: | 07 04 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A large crowd of people gather for a 4th of July celebration. Sign on building on the right side of the street reads: "Tanana." A large American flag is ha... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of a group of miners arriving in Fairbanks with their gold. One man is riding a mule. Caption reads: "Arrival Of Gold-Pack Train At Fairbanks, Alaska.... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View down business-lined First Avenue. Pedestrians are walking along the street. Caption reads: "Looking Up First Avenue — Fairbanks, Alaska. In The Winter... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Receding flood waters reveal destruction of the railroad extension to the power dam construction site. |
| Date: | 10 18 1911 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workmen standing on damaged and partly submerged railroad track on the west shore of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 01 20 1912 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 04 13 1912 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workmen pouring concrete from the elevated railroad into forms below. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Forms have been removed, revealing the newly poured buttresses and apron. A man is pushing a cart on the elevated road. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 08 07 1912 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: