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. |
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Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger train on Kilbourn railroad bridge. "Apollo No. 1" steamboat below bridge, with musicians in bow. Various launch b... |
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Description: | Bridge over river with railroad train. "Apollo No. 1" steamboat under bridge. Boats are along the shoreline. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Car ferry on the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. A ferry has operated at this site since the 1840's. In 1924 the privately owned ferry was replaced by this wo... |
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... |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
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: | 02 01 1914 |
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Description: | A view looking west toward the lock and power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. Pilings and the elevated trestle are in the foreground. Men can be seen work... |
Date: | 03 11 1914 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking east from the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. Recently completed buttresses are in the foreground, with earlier stages of constructio... |
Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | The tour launch Seagull, of the Ryan Boat Line, on the Wisconsin River at the Dells. The Kilbourn bridge is in the background. The captain is the o... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Water of Big Bull Falls or the Wisconsin River rapidly flows underneath two railroad bridges. Pedestrians cross the bridges while peering over at the over... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a work train on railroad tracks on a railroad bridge, over a river, that is under construction. Several workmen are standing and posing on... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Elevated view of several workmen standing on a platform near the shoreline of the Wisconsin River during construction of a railroad bridge. There is a work... |
Date: | 07 23 1912 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Below the High Bridge After the Flood. Wausau, Wisconsin." Railroad cars were swept away when dams at Brokaw and Merrill failed on th... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Railroad Bridge and Boat Landing, Dells of the Wisconsin, Kilbourn City, Wis." A bridge is in the background, which goes over the Wis... |
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