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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the view down the railroad tracks, with two men standing and one man sitting on the railing of the White River bridge, six miles south of As... |
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| Description: | View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three... |
| Date: | 09 29 1963 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the railroad bridge, with industrial plants on Doty Island. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a covered railroad bridge over a calm body of water, with bluffs in the background. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | View towards a barn, with a railroad bridge in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard showing a man driving an early open automobile with a railroad overpass behind him. Caption reads: "Out for a Spin, Bonduel, Wis." |
| 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: | 09 12 1911 |
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| Description: | An overview of the dam site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. Three pile drivers are at work on the coffer dam. The railroad trestle is in the ... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central train passing over the White River bridge. The first railroad car is imprinted with "U.S. Mail." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from the top of the Wisconsin Central Railroad White River bridge. |
| 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: | 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 19 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the wreckage of the high trestle caused by flooding and ice. The concrete plant is visible on the far bank. |
| 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... |
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