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| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | International "Red Baby" (model S) truck loaded with binder twine(?) and a stationary engine leaving a rural farmstead. In the background a woman holding a... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of men stand with rifles at the Echo Lake Hunting Club Camp. Gutted deer hang to cure outside the cabin. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the new Madison television facility, WISC-TV (Channel 3), showing the transmitting tower in construction. The location is to the southwest,... |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas... |
| 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: | 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 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 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A man operates an experimental motor cultivator in a field. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose around the "big boiler" and engine that power the 12 inch centrifugal pump used to pump out the coffer dam at the power dam construction site. |
| Date: | 08 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
| Date: | 03 11 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing by a piling coated with sand suspended from a crane. |
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| Description: | Man posed standing with a gun under an overhanging tree near a small wooden dam on a stream. |
| Date: | 08 04 1914 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam, showing assembly of the generators, identified by the manufacturer, the Allis-Chalmers Compa... |
| Date: | 11 03 1914 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the power house with the Allis-Chalmers generators installed. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near the generators inside the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. The base of the generators is marked with the name of... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a staircase overlooking an operating generator in the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
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