Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
Date: | 03 1911 |
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Description: | Construction workers posing during construction of the main office at the Wisconsin River dam site. |
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: | 04 1911 |
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Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
Date: | 06 21 1911 |
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Description: | Looking east over the Wisconsin River showing the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. Two steam-driven pile drivers on barges with construction worke... |
Date: | 07 20 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen stand on a barge carrying a steam-powered pile driver. The pilings will form the coffer dam necessary for construction of the power plant on the Wi... |
Date: | 08 15 1911 |
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Description: | Dam site on the Wisconsin river, looking southwest along the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. The coffer dam and two pile drivers are also visible... |
Date: | 09 12 1911 |
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Description: | An overview of the dam site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. Three pile drivers are at work on the coffer dam. The railroad trestle is in the ... |
Date: | 09 18 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. Pilings are also floating within the confines of the dam. The shoreline can be seen in the backgro... |
Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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Description: | Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam. |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
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: | 10 12 1911 |
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Description: | Two men are standing on the tracks of the newly constructed railroad extension to the construction site of the Prairie du Sac dam. Behind them, the tracks... |
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