Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | View of waterfall, bridge, Baraboo river, and town from the riverbank. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Aerial view of Lake Delton, the Wisconsin River, and the surrounding countryside. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Aerial view of Lake Delton and shoreline including resort areas. |
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: | 1900 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view towards buildings in Prairie du Sac from the east bank of the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | This was the first bridge built across the Wisconsin River, constructed about 1850, although it was not opened to traffic until 1852. It was torn down in 1... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View from shoreline of toll bridge under construction. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
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: | 07 01 1911 |
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Description: | A steam-powered centrifugal sand pump at work on the Wisconsin River during the construction of the power dam. Pilings of the coffer dam are visible in the... |
Date: | 08 15 1911 |
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Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
Date: | 09 18 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. Pilings are also floating within the confines of the dam. The shoreline can be seen in the backgro... |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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Description: | High water on the Wisconsin River has submerged the coffer dam and trestle. Two pile drivers remain in place. Log pilings are floating near the western sh... |
Date: | 10 18 1911 |
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Description: | Receding flood waters reveal destruction of the railroad extension to the power dam construction site. |
Date: | 11 05 1911 |
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Description: | A diver and team working to inspect the coffer dam for underwater damage caused by flooding. |
Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
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