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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dam and hydroelectric power house, with a billowing smokestack and a crane in the background. |
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| Description: | Waterwheel for generating electric power, with men sitting on the log support. It may be the largest in the nation. The waterwheel was built in 1924 by a c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the tower of the Northern Hydro-Electric Power Company on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View from Tower of Northern Hydro-El... |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Dam under construction on the Wisconsin River by the Southern Wisconsin Power Company. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View upriver towards a dam, and a power house on the right. |
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| Description: | One side of a concrete dam with a railroad bridge to the right, and houses in the background. |
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| Description: | View across water towards buildings along the shoreline. The building on the left has a sign that reads: "Neenah Mills". |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a reproduction of the world's first hydroelectric central station. It is located near the site of the original, which began operation on S... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from a hill looking down on the plant which has several attached buildings, and a large chimney. To the right are railroad cars along the shoreline o... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Looking across water and through the locks to a shoreline with a large hill in the background. A building is on the left, a wall and pilings are in the wat... |
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| Description: | Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill. |
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| Description: | Outdoor view looking down at men working on a high brick foundation on the river, with a railroad bridge in the background. Identified as the laying of the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view from shoreline towards a powerhouse on the river, with town buildings in the background on the opposite shoreline. Identified as the second po... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view looking down a hill towards a powerhouse on the river, with town buildings on a hill in the background. Identified as the second powerhouse th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view looking down at a powerhouse on the river, with town buildings in the background. Identified as the second powerhouse that was replaced in 191... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view looking down at a powerhouse, with town buildings in the background and men fishing along the shoreline. Identified as the third powerhouse bu... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a powerhouse among very high water on the Black River. Identified as the second power house with high water in 1905. |
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| Description: | The Mill House is another component of the compound at House on the Rock. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water power at the Montello Granite Co. View across water toward buildings elevated above the water. Water is pouring through the foundations of some of th... |
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