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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down riverbank towards dam of a river around Wausau. Two men and a limber (two-wheeled cart) are near the rivers edge. A man, perhaps a construction w... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men working on the construction of a dam across a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield Dam in 1907. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior portrait of the construction site of a dam on a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam in 1907. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior portrait of the construction site of a dam on a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam in 1907. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of a steam dredge at the construction site of a dam on a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam in 1907. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the construction site of a dam across a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam across the Black River in 1907 to 1909. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | This street map was given out by Mound City Bank and features a legend of points of interest and a street index. Streets are labeled as is the Roundtree Br... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | This street map was likely given out by Mound City Bank and features a legend of points of interest and a street index. Streets are labeled as is the Round... |
| Date: | 03 1965 |
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| Description: | Keith Brigham is shown checking the U.S. Geological Survey stream gauging station located at the Yahara river locks on Lake Waubesa near McFarland. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of people on a wanigan, the "Dancing Annie," used by Chippewa Lumber and Supply Company near Eagle Rapids. A wanigan is a floating office and supply ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | This series of 17 maps show boundaries and changes in city limits from 1846 to 1965. The base of all of the maps are the same, Milwaukee and suburbs. All m... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A bateau or york boat full of lumberjacks traveling down the river. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of Howard "Dad" Greene photographing an Indian man and a dog next to a jerky-drying frame. They are in an Indian village at the mouth of the Namakan... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standin... |
| Date: | 09 1930 |
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| Description: | View across river towards three men in a canoe negotiating the Cedar Rapids of the Flambeau. Large boulders are along the far shoreline. On the reverse of ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks. |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above t... |
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