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| Description: | Men with shovels during the flood at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| 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 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: | 10 18 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen standing on damaged and partly submerged railroad track on the west shore of the Wisconsin River. |
| 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: | 10 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a flood in a residential neighborhood. A man is picking up pieces of wood in the road. Large piles of debris... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the right. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with men working near a railway track with sand haulers. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards men standing among several large rocks, and a road made with logs. Identified as the lying of logs on the sand bar after the flood of Black Ri... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down wall towards a construction site. On the right arec men by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the f... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with men working by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the fill and reconstru... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line. The caption on the negative envelope states: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View upstream towards five young men and boys posing on the flooded bridge at Dates Mill as water rushes from the swollen mill pond into French Creek. Anot... |
| Date: | 06 03 1914 |
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| Description: | Standing water between buildings and the railroad yard. Handwriting on the back reads: "Flood at Seymoure [sic], June 3-1914." Two men are standing near th... |
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