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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up... |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the forms for the east shore abutment at the power dam site. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 08 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site from the west, showing the elevated trestle, coffer dam, and steam pile drivers. The concrete plant is vis... |
| Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Car boarding the ferry on left side. The far shoreline can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Looking across water and through the locks to a shoreline with a large hill in the background. A building is on the left, a wall and pilings are in the wat... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Cleopatra's Needle with Devil's Lake in the background. There is a cottage on the far side of the lake. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A winter view of Chimney Rock at the Dells. There is snow on the ground and ice on the river. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Devil's Lake from the West Bluff. Railroad tracks are seen along the base of the East Bluff. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children swimming, playing, and relaxing at the beach at Devil's Lake State Park. Two long docks extend into the water and the scene is rep... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A girl climbing over the rocks at Devil's Lake State Park against a scenic view of the lake and surrounding areas. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View of the new bath house at Devil's Lake State Park, taken from the pier. Two small boats are pulled up to the shore and two girls are wading in the wate... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of an original photograph by H.H. Bennett of the Cliff House Inn at Devil's Lake as seen from the beach. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have slept h... |
| Date: | 06 04 1961 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of an old rowboat in an artificial lake built by the Honey Creek Rod and Gun Club. There is a barn on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 11 11 1961 |
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| Description: | View along the Wisconsin River, looking upstream from near Tower Hill State Park toward Highway 14 bridge. |
| Date: | 11 11 1961 |
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| Description: | View through patch of dense tree growth towards a Wisconsin River riverbank. |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | The edge of a stock pond and the surrounding wooded area. A small sandy shoreline lines the pond. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from water of two unidentified men standing on the shoreline near the dance pavilion on the north shore of Devil's Lake. |
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