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| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Men working from the elevated road on the east end of the power dam, constructing shots (chutes) for the concrete. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pouring concrete from the elevated railroad into forms below. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed, revealing the newly poured buttresses and apron. A man is pushing a cart on the elevated road. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing outside the dining hall before dinner. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | An overview, from the west bank, of the power dam construction site. The high trestle is in the background, and the narrow gauge electric railroad is in th... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose around the "big boiler" and engine that power the 12 inch centrifugal pump used to pump out the coffer dam at the power dam construction site. |
| Date: | 08 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
| Date: | 08 26 1917 |
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| Description: | Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans. |
| Date: | 06 12 1924 |
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| Description: | A farmer using a Chattanooga walking plow drawn by two horses. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A farmer is sitting on the seat of a Chattanooga plow pulled by four horses. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man plowing a field with a Chattanooga reversible(?) plow pulled by four horses. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn Chattanooga walking plow pulled by a team of two horses or donkeys in a field. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A farmer is guiding a Chattanooga walking plow in a field as it is being pulled by a team of two horses. |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen using a crane to erect the gate guides for the power house. |
| Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing during erection of the draft tubes for the power house at the Prairie du Sac 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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