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| Description: | Interior view from balcony of Kilbourn Dam Powerhouse. Four men stand at the balcony railing near stairs that lead to the ground floor. Another man stands ... |
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| Description: | Panoramic group portrait of workers, who are building the Penisular Power Company, located on the Brule River. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dam and hydroelectric power house, with a billowing smokestack and a crane in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the tower of the Northern Hydro-Electric Power Company on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View from Tower of Northern Hydro-El... |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Dam under construction on the Wisconsin River by the Southern Wisconsin Power Company. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View upriver towards a dam, and a power house on the right. |
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| Description: | View across water towards buildings along the shoreline. The building on the left has a sign that reads: "Neenah Mills". |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a reproduction of the world's first hydroelectric central station. It is located near the site of the original, which began operation on S... |
| Date: | 08 04 1914 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam, showing assembly of the generators, identified by the manufacturer, the Allis-Chalmers Compa... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from a hill looking down on the plant which has several attached buildings, and a large chimney. To the right are railroad cars along the shoreline o... |
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| Description: | Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interior of a generator plant. A man is standing next to the machines. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mill, dam, and railroad tracks, and forests surrounding the area. The lumber mill itself, with main building complex and smokestack is... |
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| Description: | View of the Lower Falls on the Spokane River. A building on the left has a sign that reads: "Washington Water Power Company." |
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| Description: | View of a dam, with industrial buildings on the opposite shoreline. A factory building has a sign that reads: "Home of Old Hampshire Bond," and "Hampshire ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across reservoir of dam and power plant. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across river of an "old mill." There is a waterwheel attached to the left side of the mill. A small waterfall and a number of trees and foliage surrou... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of National Blower Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturers of "Steam Hot Blast Apparatus." On the left is an Uncle Sam figure pointing to a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view from shoreline towards a powerhouse on the river, with town buildings in the background on the opposite shoreline. Identified as the second po... |
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