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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose on a steam-powered pile driver at work at the north end of the slough on the Wisconsin River. The railroad was extended from the village to th... |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man is using two horses to pull a mower through a field of clover. In the background are hills or mountains. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Worker using an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in a mining operation. Original caption states: "owned by Possum Hollow Coal Company. Building ... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of a bridge. There is a sign on the crane that reads "The Milw... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man uses an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull a greasing wagon across rough terrain. A dirt road and hills are in the background. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man uses an International TD-18 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a heavy-duty road ripper to do construction on rough terrain. Hills are in the backgro... |
| Date: | 01 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men loading pole supports into the back of an International truck owned by the Puget Sound Power and Light Company. In the foreground are railroad tr... |
| Date: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | A man operates machinery powered by an International PA-50 power unit owned by Starbuck Construction Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of field, trees, and valley with farm buildings in background. A man is driving a horse-drawn reaper in a field in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across a field of horse-drawn grain binder with a farm in the middle distance. Men are standing in the barnyard, and a woman is standing on the lawn n... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Men use horses, mowers, rakes and a hay loader to harvest hay in a field. A man is standing on a large haystack in the background. |
| Date: | 02 09 1915 |
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| Description: | A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills. |
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