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| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A man operates an experimental motor cultivator in a field. |
| 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: | 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: | 03 11 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing by a piling coated with sand suspended from a crane. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near the generators inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. The base of the generators is marked with the name of... |
| 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: | 04 22 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
| Date: | 05 28 1911 |
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| Description: | Men posing on a barge carrying a steam powered pile driver at work on the coffer dam for the construction of the powerhouse. Caption reads: "Driving Sheet ... |
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| Description: | A man with a shotgun and whip sits in a buggy pulled by a single horse in a field, possibly looking for prairie chickens. |
| Date: | 12 20 1907 |
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| Description: | Men are working with horses, a threshing machine, a push binder(?) and stationary engine in a field. A group of men and women with a horse-drawn buggy are ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A group of eleven men (possibly cast and crew members) gather for a group portrait. The photograph was taken on the set at Walnut Grove of the Fox Hearst f... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Caption on back of photograph states: "Fox Hearst crew testing camera focus on scene which introduces Cyrus Hall McCormick for the first time in the film, ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reaper ... |
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