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| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th... |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly poured concrete abutment on the east shore of the Wisconsin River. Iron reinforcing rods protrude from the concrete. Workmen and the steam-driven cem... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
| 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: | 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: | 03 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man posing among the timber pilings near the east shore of the river. Wooden concrete forms and two buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | The concrete mixer standing near the newly poured east shore abutment while men are working nearby. Reinforcing rods protrude from the abutment. |
| Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
| 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: | 03 11 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing by a piling coated with sand suspended from a crane. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen on temporary walkways among reinforcing bars on the roof of the power house. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers maneuvering a load of gravel into a concrete mixer at the plant on the east bank of the river. The east abutment is in the foreground, left. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers putting in concrete to create an apron for the power dam they're building. Two men in suits are standing on a platform on the far ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Power House at the Dam." Elevated view of the powerhouse, which is a very large brick and concrete structure next to the Prairie du S... |
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