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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Side view of the sidewheel packet, Quincy, sinking in 1906. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Lat... |
| Date: | 06 25 1910 |
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| Description: | The wreck of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., after being destroyed by fire. Caption reads: "This wreck of the Str. J.S. Burned June 25, 1910, now ly... |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a collapsed ice house towards the shoreline looking north. |
| Date: | 04 22 1965 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec... |
| Date: | 04 21 1965 |
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| Description: | View down flooded railroad tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad by the Mississippi River. There are houses on the left, and in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company grain elevator at the Milwaukee harbor, with a sailing ship anchored nearby. |
| 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 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: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| 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: | 07 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A child, possibly Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones, stands near the wreckage of a wooden structure caused by ice break-up on Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View looking across the river east into Black River Falls during the flood, showing the elevated level of the river and buildings falling into the water. C... |
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