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| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
| Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of men assisting three men in diving gear on a boat on the Chicago River near the McCormick Works (factory). |
| 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: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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| Description: | A diver posing with other workmen at the power dam construction site prior to assessing underwater damage. |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Grant Park and cars on the adjacent street taken from the International Harvester offices. |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Men working from the elevated road on the east end of the power dam, constructing shots (chutes) for the concrete. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pouring concrete from the elevated railroad into forms below. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed, revealing the newly poured buttresses and apron. A man is pushing a cart on the elevated road. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing outside the dining hall before dinner. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | An overview, from the west bank, of the power dam construction site. The high trestle is in the background, and the narrow gauge electric railroad is in th... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose around the "big boiler" and engine that power the 12 inch centrifugal pump used to pump out the coffer dam at the power dam construction site. |
| Date: | 08 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
| Date: | 05 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Captain Harvey Black, veteran chief lifeguard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison lifeguards, standing in his boat, "Isabel II". |
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