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| Description: | View across water towards a large building above a waterfall. Ice is coating the sides of the river. A bridge is in the foreground on the left. Railroad ca... |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "North Freedom, Wis. Broken dam at Mill Pond Park. The city was raising funds to rebuild dam and the Conservation Commission assisted." |
| Date: | 04 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Water flows through a diversion channel around the Tenney Park lock and dam construction site. A man is standing in the foreground and pointing towards men... |
| Date: | 02 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "View of head gate entrance leading to mill race taken from inside of dam." |
| Date: | 02 15 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of men are working on the dam. Handwritten on back: "Outside of Dam wall at center." |
| Date: | 02 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on the stone wall, and another man is standing on scaffolding inside the dam. In the foreground are large stones, logs, and water. Han... |
| Date: | 02 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "View of head gate entrance taken from outside of dam. Note hand hewn locust posts." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'Capt. Herb Droste' and the 'Josephine,' Wisconsin Dells, Wis." A tour boat and the captain, moored at the Dells Boat Company dock wi... |
| Date: | 11 20 1906 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bridge, Mill and Power House, Weyauwega, Wis." The Weyauwega Mill and grain elevator on the right, power house on the left with the M... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene at Weyauwega, Wis." View across water towards the Weyauwega Mills and grain elevator on the left, with a horse-drawn wagon on t... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Power House, Kilbourn, Wis." A brick building with arched windows. Completed in 1909, the power plant is still in use today. Kilbou... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.' Electric Power Plant, Kilbourn, Wis." Completed in 1909, the power plant is still in ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bird's-eye View of Riverview Service Group, Looking East, At The Dells, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." On reverse: "All the world knows... |
| Date: | 07 13 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Dam – Westfield, Wis." Water spills over the dam into the river, and buildings are behind and above the dam. There are trees on b... |
| Date: | 01 13 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Showing the Dam of the Milwaukee River, West Bend, Wis." Elevated view of the West Bend dam with a brewery on the left in the backgro... |
| Date: | 01 12 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Fall Mill St., Waupaca, Wis." Water flowing over a dam on the Waupaca River. There are advertising signs on the dam and buildings ca... |
| Date: | 01 07 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Dam and Electric Power Plant, Watertown, Wis." The Watertown Electric Company Power Plant #1 was built in 1909 of cream brick. Rollin... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Viroqua, Wis." On reverse: "U.S. Government Dam on the Mississippi River." A cargo barge is about to pass through lock... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Trempealeau Wis. on the Great River Road overlooking Lock & Dam No. 6 on the Upper Mississippi." On reverse: "Lock & Dam No. 6, one o... |
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