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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin with an inset of Clifton. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of bluff taken from below. Caption reads: "Rattlesnake Bluff at Loddes Mill Sauk Co., Wis." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Uncle Billy Johnson home at Governor Phillip's house, about six miles north of Prairie du Sac near highway 12. Portion of house, rock formation in back... |
| 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: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of toll bridge across the Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "A Glimpse of Pr-Du-Sac Toll Bridge." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View along side of bridge over the Wisconsin River, built in 1921 to take the place of the old wooden one when it became condemned. Caption reads: "Wis. Ri... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This was the first bridge built across the Wisconsin River, constructed about 1850, although it was not opened to traffic until 1852. It was torn down in 1... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of toll bridge under construction. |
| Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
| 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 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 01 20 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on a rail car on the narrow gauge electric railroad crossing the river at the dam construction site. The portion of track... |
| Date: | 03 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man posing among the timber pilings near the east shore of the river. Wooden concrete forms and two buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of steam powered pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. |
| 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. |
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