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Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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Description: | High water has scattered timber pilings through the construction camp. The office is on the right; the smokestacks of the temporary power plant are behind ... |
Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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Description: | Workers maneuvering a load of gravel into a concrete mixer at the plant on the east bank of the river. The east abutment is in the foreground, left. |
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: | 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: | 09 30 1912 |
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Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
Date: | 01 09 1913 |
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Description: | Men are standing in the completed draft tubes after removal of the steel forms. |
Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
Date: | 07 16 1926 |
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Description: | Two mud-splattered International trucks with drivers parked in front of a wooden water tank. The tank has a hand-painted sign that reads: "Positively No Sw... |
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Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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Description: | Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right. |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | An aerial view of the construction of a new wing on a state office building. Automobiles are parked in a log along Lake Monona. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | View of a state office building, and, at far right, the City-County building. |
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Description: | A group of CIO students, who are attending Highlander Folk School, enjoying a picnic at the nearby Foster Falls picnic area. Dad Horton standing on the lef... |
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Description: | Farmers Union workshop outdoors near water at Highlander Folk School. B.R. Brazeal is on the extreme left. May Justus, Highlander's Secretary-Treasurer, a... |
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Description: | Russell Bull, regional Packinghouse Workers director, fishing in Highlander Lake. He has just caught a largemouth bass. |
Date: | 09 1954 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol balcony. At the lower left, the demolition of old City Hall is in progress, which began ... |
Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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Description: | Art Ensign (left) and Chuck Steele seated in the lifeguard tower at Madison's Lakefront Beach. The City of Madison has placed experienced lifeguards at 8 b... |
Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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Description: | Three of the models who will appear in the annual summer session style show, sponsored by the Women's Self Government Association, are shown on the steps n... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Building from across the river, with construction workers working nearby. Signs for the Boston Store and Diamond tires are on the roof, as well as lettered... |
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