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| Description: | Exterior view of a locomotive at the Bell Center depot. Men stand on the platform. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The hangar and three airplanes (a Canuck and a J-1 Standard) at the airport operated by the Larson Brothers of Larsen, Wisconsin. The field was both the mo... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Iron mines with railroad tracks three miles south of North Freedom, in La Rue. One the left are buildings with three large smokestacks; on the right is mac... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 10 1928 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Sun Prairie, including the central business district, residences, and the surrounding countryside stretching to the horizon. |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 06 29 1913 |
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| Description: | View from the west bank of the Wisconsin River showing progress on the power dam. The narrow gauge track is visible in the foreground. |
| Date: | 07 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A view of the power house from the southwest, showing bricklayers and other workers. The narrow gauge railroad is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power house from the southwest showing progress of the brickwork. Two railroad cars are standing on the railroad extension. Workers ar... |
| Date: | 11 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the hill, looking northeast at the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. Much of the brickwork has been completed. Concrete forms for t... |
| Date: | 10 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east across the power house, lock, and uncompleted portion of the dam. The concrete plant is seen on the far bank. The rising water o... |
| Date: | 11 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Wooden forms are in place for construction of the walls of the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. The newly constructed power house is on the left. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men use a DR-60 truck owned by J. Robert Bazley, Inc. to dump coal taken from Pennsylvania coal strippings into a chute leading to railroad cars. The m... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An International KB-8-F dump truck owned by the Empire-Star Mines Company, Limited, parked in front of several buildings with its bed raised to ore(?). A m... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men load torpedoes onto the bed of an International truck marked: "The Independent Eastern Torpedo Co." A sign reading: "Explosives" is on the grille o... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man in a shed releases coal from a chute into the back of an International KB-11-F truck owned by the Coal Service Corporation. Another man is in the drive... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | A man standing with a dog near an International truck under a building owned by the Coshocton Black Coal Company. The company used PA-50 and 100K Morgan Ga... |
| Date: | 08 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Buildings owned by the Peacock Coal Company. A man is standing beside a small wooden structure on the side of a hill. There is a ramp angling up and away f... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Men and ponies standing near a building and carts on railroad tracks at the Story & McDade coal mine. The mine operation was powered by an International PA... |
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