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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the Portage Canal, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view looking east at Mt. Trempealeau from Brady's Bluff in Perrot State Park. The Mississippi River is visible along the bluffs at upper left, and t... |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin River from Cactus Bluff. |
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| Description: | Panoramic photograph from top of Bascom Hall facing northwest, showing Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin campus. Washburn Observatory visible to ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men and a dog are standing on thick chunks of ice looking over logs on an icy river. |
| 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: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | A view from the bluff of group of men on the dredge bank of Buffalo Lake. |
| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam on the Fox River at Buffalo Lake. Houses and other buildings are visible in the background. |
| 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: | 06 21 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking east over the Wisconsin River showing the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. Two steam-driven pile drivers on barges with construction worke... |
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| Description: | Steamboat near a cliff on the Wisconsin River, presumably in the Wisconsin Dells. |
| 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: | 12 29 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the progress within the coffer dam showing concrete forms around the draft tubes and gate guides. The high trestle is seen extending to th... |
| 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: | 03 31 1938 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River from the bluffs and hills of western Wisconsin, looking south. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Lotus beds on Mississippi River in the foreground and middleground. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Six men of the fishing colony on the shorelines of the Mississippi River. Numerous boats, logs, and fishing nets are scattered across the beach. Caption on... |
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