Date: | 07 27 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. The outline of the coffer dam is easily seen. Three steam-pow... |
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 12 1911 |
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Description: | High water on the Wisconsin River has submerged the coffer dam and trestle. Two pile drivers remain in place. Log pilings are floating near the western sh... |
Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view within the coffer dam showing four steel draft tubes; wooden supports are visible inside one of the tubes. |
Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen posing on and in front of the steel draft tubes. The gate guides are visible on the right. |
Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
Date: | 02 28 1914 |
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Description: | Group portrait of workers assembled with construction materials south of the power dam at Prairie du Sac. Three men in suits are on the right. The smokesta... |
Date: | 03 12 1914 |
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Description: | Office force and foremen posing in front of the south side of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 03 12 1914 |
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Description: | The office force and foremen posing before the south facade of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 10 11 1914 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking east across the power house, lock, and uncompleted portion of the dam. The concrete plant is seen on the far bank. The rising water o... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near the generators inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. The base of the generators is marked with the name of... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | A group of bricklayers posing with the tools of their trade in front of an unfinished brick wall at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Note the wooden form for a... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
Date: | 10 17 1912 |
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Description: | A crowd gathers for the laying of the cornerstone of the Hon. J.S. Tripp Library and Hall. J. Stephen Tripp was a pioneer in Prairie du Sac, a lawyer, and ... |
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. |
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