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| Date: | 07 01 1911 |
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| Description: | A steam-powered centrifugal sand pump at work on the Wisconsin River during the construction of the power dam. Pilings of the coffer dam are visible in the... |
| Date: | 07 20 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen stand on a barge carrying a steam-powered pile driver. The pilings will form the coffer dam necessary for construction of the power plant on the Wi... |
| Date: | 07 27 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. The outline of the coffer dam is easily seen. Three steam-pow... |
| Date: | 08 15 1911 |
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| Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
| Date: | 09 12 1911 |
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| Description: | An overview of the dam site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. Three pile drivers are at work on the coffer dam. The railroad trestle is in the ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the St. Paul Flax Twine MIll with a railroad track and power lines in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 18 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. Pilings are also floating within the confines of the dam. The shoreline can be seen in the backgro... |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| 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 |
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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. |
| Date: | 03 1907 |
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| Description: | The engine of a train stopped at a crossroad, possibly near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 05 20 1905 |
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| 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: | 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: | Receding flood waters reveal destruction of the railroad extension to the power dam construction site. |
| 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. |
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