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Machinery at Prairie du Sac Dam

Date: 08 11 1910
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 ...
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Residential Construction with Teams of Horses

Date: 08 18 1926
Description: Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood.
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Crushing Rock for Road Resurfacing

Date: 1910
Description: A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway.
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Excavating for New Building

Date: 07 1908
Description: Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w...
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Excavating for New Building

Date: 07 1908
Description: Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store.
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Milwaukee Works Construction

Date: 05 18 1911
Description: A man uses a horse-drawn wagon to transport building materials on a construction site at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Men are clearin...
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Work Horses and Wagons at Construction Site

Date: 1912
Description: Panoramic view of men shoveling dirt from a large pile into a long line of horse-drawn wagons lined up along a road at a construction site.
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Men and Women at Site for New Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and women at the construction site for new silo. One man holds the reins for nearby team of work horses while the other man stands inside the pit f...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

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Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
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Hatfield Canal Construction

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Description: View of a horse hauling dirt on a wagon on tracks. There are five workmen adding dirt to the wagon from a large pile. Identified as part of the Hatfield Ca...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View across unpaved road toward construction workers loading a stone slab onto a horse-drawn wagon during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View from the rear of the Eau Claire Public Library during its construction. A construction worker stands at the base of a wooden support structure with a ...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work...
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Construction Site

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Description: Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, a crane, construction shacks, ...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, a crane, construction shacks, ...
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New Findorff Mill

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Description: Elevated group portrait of men posing in front of the J.H. Findorff, Contractor, Planing Mill & Lumber Yard building. A smaller brick building on the far r...
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Road Construction Near Barronett

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Description: Four men are posing atop different carts, one of which is hitched to horses, and an engine. Caption reads: "This is me on the engine I worked on this summe...

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