Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Man operating a McCormick horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A tugboat is pulling sailing ships on a body of water in the distance. The photograph appear... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w... |
Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)." |
Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
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: | 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: | 04 1911 |
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Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
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 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen pose during construction of the temporary steam power plant at the Prairie du Sac dam. These engines provided electric power for the construction ... |
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 ... |
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