Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Jim Short steering a raft riding the rough waters of the river. |
Date: | 08 24 1886 |
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Description: | View across water of several men steering a lumber raft over the dam at Munger's Mill. A second raft is in the background, in front of railroad bridge. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Men working in a drained reservoir with shovels, probably at the Hatfield Dam. |
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: | 03 1911 |
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Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
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 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen pose during construction of the temporary steam power plant at the Prairie du Sac dam. These engines provided electric power for the construction ... |
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: | 07 16 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen pose around the "big boiler" and engine that power the 12 inch centrifugal pump used to pump out the coffer dam at the power dam construction site. |
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. |
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