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| 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: | 08 07 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 18 1912 |
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| Description: | Eight cooks posing inside the dining hall. Long tables are set for a meal. |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of the Chattanooga Plow Works. Lettering on the building reads "Chattanooga Plow Company." The photograph was likely taken around... |
| Date: | 10 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Concrete plant at east end of the dam, showing the mixers, crane, and a rail car at the abutment. |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen using a crane to erect the gate guides for the power house. |
| Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing during erection of the draft tubes for the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view within the coffer dam showing four steel draft tubes; wooden supports are visible inside one of the tubes. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing on and in front of the steel draft tubes. The gate guides are visible on the right. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the progress of construction within the coffer dam showing the gate guides and draft tubes in place. Concrete forms and chutes, as well as... |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Two workmen standing in the outlet of a steel draft tube in the power house, while other men are working above it. Cars are moving along the elevated trest... |
| Date: | 12 29 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the progress within the coffer dam showing concrete forms around the draft tubes and gate guides. The high trestle is seen extending to th... |
| Date: | 02 08 1913 |
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| Description: | A winter view with workers posing with brush mats at the power dam construction site. The gate guides and high trestle form the background. |
| Date: | 03 11 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing by a piling coated with sand suspended from a crane. |
| Date: | 03 19 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the wreckage of the high trestle caused by flooding and ice. The concrete plant is visible on the far bank. |
| Date: | 04 07 1913 |
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| Description: | Five men, two well-dressed, posing on electric rail cars during construction of the dam. |
| Date: | 05 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Progress on the power house construction, with the east portion of the wall complete, and men working on forms for the rest of the wall. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Completed east portion of the first story of the generator room of the power house. Forms are in place at the west end. |
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