Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
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: | 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 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 ... |
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: | 07 20 1911 |
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Description: | Workmen stand on a barge carrying a steam-powered pile driver. The pilings will form the coffer dam necessary for construction of the power plant on the Wi... |
Date: | 07 27 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. The outline of the coffer dam is easily seen. Three steam-pow... |
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 07 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Workers attempt to secure the trestle against high water on the Wisconsin River during construction of the power dam. |
Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
Date: | 10 11 1911 |
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Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River which has inundated the coffer dam at the construction site. The narrow gauge railroad (curved line in f... |
Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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Description: | The concrete mixer standing near the newly poured east shore abutment while men are working nearby. Reinforcing rods protrude from the abutment. |
Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
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