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Wisconsin River Headwaters Reservoir System

Date: 2013
Description: This map shows hydroelectric dams, natural-lake and man-made reservoirs, the Wisconsin River and its tributaries, and the Wisconsin River Drainage Basin. T...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin River Valley

Date: 1911
Description: This map includes references to reservoirs, industrial sites, and drainage basins.
Photograph

Aerial View of McCormick Works

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of McCormick Works.
Map or Atlas

Water Resources Development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Wisconsin

Date: 01 01 1959
Description: This map shows many of the rivers, dams, bays, harbors, lakes, and canals. It includes an index of authorized federal project, both for navigation and floo...
Photograph

Fox River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Fox River. A dam is creating a reservoir for hydroelectric power. Former paper mills are on the left shore of the rive...
Photograph

Coal Dock

Date: 08 1940
Description: Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,...
Photograph

Gordon Dam

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view, looking upstream, of water flowing through a dam. On the reverse of the print is written: "Dam built by WPA on site of old logging dam on the ...
Photograph

Overlook

Date: 1936
Description: A crowd has gathered on a hilltop overlooking a large flat expanse which has been cleared of trees. A man is standing slightly downhill from the group and ...
Photograph

Picnic

Date: 07 1939
Description: Three unidentified women, two wearing wide-legged slacks, are supervising a group of children around a stone fireplace in Council Grounds State Forest (now...
Photograph

Sentimental Silhouettes

Date: 1968
Description: Two ducks are silhouetted on the Chippewa Flowage at sunrise or sunset.
Photograph

Moonlight on Marion Pond

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view over the tops of buildings to the water beyond. A wooden sidewalk and fence runs along the street in the foreground. Caption on negative read...

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