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: | 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: | 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: | 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 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Workmen on temporary walkways among reinforcing bars on the roof of the power house. |
Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
Date: | 10 10 1913 |
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Description: | Workers posing with roof trusses on the power house, 85 feet above the water level at the Prairie du Sac Dam. Note the brickwork in progress. |
Date: | 02 28 1914 |
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Description: | Group portrait of workers assembled with construction materials south of the power dam at Prairie du Sac. Three men in suits are on the right. The smokesta... |
Date: | 03 12 1914 |
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Description: | Office force and foremen posing in front of the south side of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 03 12 1914 |
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Description: | The office force and foremen posing before the south facade of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 05 13 1914 |
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Description: | A view upstream through the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. Workmen are guiding a barge through the lock as a man and woman are watching from steps in the ... |
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