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Moonlight on Marion Pond

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view over the tops of buildings to the water beyond. A wooden sidewalk and fence runs along the street in the foreground. Caption on negative read...
Photograph

Aerial View of McCormick Works

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of McCormick Works.
Photograph

Elevated View of McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across river of McCormick Works.
Photograph

Picnic

Date: 07 1939
Description: Three unidentified women, two wearing wide-legged slacks, are supervising a group of children around a stone fireplace in Council Grounds State Forest (now...
Photograph

Overlook

Date: 1936
Description: A crowd has gathered on a hilltop overlooking a large flat expanse which has been cleared of trees. A man is standing slightly downhill from the group and ...
Photograph

Gordon Dam

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view, looking upstream, of water flowing through a dam. On the reverse of the print is written: "Dam built by WPA on site of old logging dam on the ...
Photograph

Coal Dock

Date: 08 1940
Description: Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,...
Photograph

Fox River

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Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Fox River. A dam is creating a reservoir for hydroelectric power. Former paper mills are on the left shore of the rive...
Map or Atlas

Water Resources Development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Wisconsin

Date: 01 01 1959
Description: This map shows many of the rivers, dams, bays, harbors, lakes, and canals. It includes an index of authorized federal project, both for navigation and floo...
Photograph

Scenic View on Lower Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from hill looking down at a river and reservoir. A railroad train is moving along railroad tracks on the opposite side of the river. Houses a...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 1925
Description: A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the lef...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 1925
Description: A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the left side of the photo...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album b...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album b...
Photograph

Building Site and Crane

Date: 1925
Description: A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the lef...
Photograph

Construction Crew

Date: 
Description: The "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, posing with a piece of equipment. A house and trees are in the background. Bags of cem...
Photograph

Old Mill

Date: 1924
Description: The Humbird Roller Mill surrounded by rural landscape. A man leads on a porch beam as he poses for the picture.
Poster

International D-Line Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a D-line truck hauling a large section of aqueduct with a reservoir in the ba...
Photograph

Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial photograph looking northwest across the reservoir on Glenway Street. Featured are Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection Cemetery. Major streets are Fr...
Photograph

Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking north along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection and Forest Hill Cemeteries, Rentschler Greenhouses, Fore...

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