Date: | 04 24 1910 |
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Description: | The Hoo Hoo Club Hotel, a lumbermen's social organization. Two men are standing near a man driving a sled carrying milk cans pulled by two horses in front ... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | View down the unpaved main street of Argonne. The inn in the right foreground was the Commercial House. Across the street, the first building on the left... |
Date: | 12 1918 |
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Description: | Post Office advertising the sale of War Savings Stamps. A sign above the entrance reads: "Do Your Christmas Shopping Here." Snow is on the ground. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Elevated view of dam and power station on a river. Two automobiles are parked in a lot in the lower left corner. Bluffs are in the distance. |
Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
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: | 1911 |
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Description: | Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Newly construced kitchen and dining rooms at the construction camp for the dam on the Wisconsin River. The kitchen building has three ventilators on the ro... |
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 14 1911 |
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Description: | Completed two-story wood frame main office building at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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Description: | Newly poured concrete abutment on the east shore of the Wisconsin River. Iron reinforcing rods protrude from the concrete. Workmen and the steam-driven cem... |
Date: | 06 10 1911 |
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Description: | Dining rooms and kitchen at the camp on the construction site of the Prairie du Sac dam. Workers and children pose in front of the dining rooms; there are ... |
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: | 07 01 1911 |
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Description: | A steam-powered centrifugal sand pump at work on the Wisconsin River during the construction of the power dam. Pilings of the coffer dam are visible in the... |
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