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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
| Date: | 05 03 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers building a culvert over Maggard's Branch near mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed i... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 03 29 1919 |
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| Description: | Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Kemp 20th Century (reverse apron) line of manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester mechanical irrigation equipment. Features an illustration of two men standing next to a ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester New Low manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man riding on a horse-drawn manure spre... |
| 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: | 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 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 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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