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| Description: | View upriver towards dam. Buildings on shoreline at left. Sign on roof reads: "Mirror Lake Boats." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards a dam in Jefferson. Two men are fishing from the shoreline in the foreground. The Woolen Mills are on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The Rock River Dam with the Woolen Mills building in the background. Caption reads: "Rock River Dam, Jefferson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View of Horlick's mill and dam, also known as "Ye Old Mill." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge in Racine next to the "Ye Old Horlick's Boat Livery". |
| Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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| Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| 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: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | The concrete mixer standing near the newly poured east shore abutment while men are working nearby. Reinforcing rods protrude from the abutment. |
| Date: | 07 06 1937 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for the dam on the St. Croix River that is now part of the Gordon Dam County Park. Construction on this dam was begun as a WPA project... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Island Woolen Mill dam and bridge over the Baraboo River. In the foreground is a concrete "pergola" which shades a small bench. Molded into a concrete ... |
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| Description: | View of a dam on Rock River. Commercial buildings are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Variety of buildings reflected in Teal Lake. A wooden rowboat is tied to a pier on the lake. The Teal River is rushing over a nearby dam and along the dirt... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wooden flood gate with water pouring out. There are signs on either post advertising the interstate fair in La Crosse on September 23-27. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wooden flood gate of a dam. Water pours over the gate down into a reservoir. There are signs on either post advertising the interstate fair in La Crosse on... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | An International Model A-8 dump truck works on the Grand Coulee Dam construction site. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | One of a set of maps from G.K. Warren's 1876 Report on the transportation route along the Wisconsin and Fox rivers in the State of Wisconsin between the Mi... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over the Baraboo River towards a dam, with a mill on the opposite shoreline. A bridge and a business district are in the background. |
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