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| Date: | 04 22 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
| Date: | 02 1936 |
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| Description: | Winter scene featuring a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul train from the front with snow thrower attached to the engine. Smoke billows to the right and power l... |
| Date: | 10 08 1907 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a road running along in the background with power line poles. |
| Date: | 10 08 1907 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a road running along in the background with power line poles. |
| Date: | 10 08 1907 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a road running along in the background lined with power line poles. |
| Date: | 10 08 1907 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a road running along in the background with power line poles. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a man using a tractor to plow in a field. In the background is a line of power poles. |
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| Description: | View alongside railroad tracks looking towards an approaching steam locomotive. In the background on the right is a power plant with smokestacks. |
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| Description: | Two men outdoors with an emergency telephone. The men appear to be on top of a truck or other type of vehicle. Behind them are power lines and trees. |
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| Description: | Interior of the Black River Falls powerhouse. |
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| Description: | Interior of the Black River Falls powerhouse. |
| Date: | 03 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Group of people at the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative meeting. They are delegates, from REA (Rural Electrification Administration) member cooperatives, att... |
| Date: | 06 27 1976 |
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| Description: | Madison Gas and Electric Company, 736 East Washington Avenue, displaying projecting bricks that provides patterns and texture. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th... |
| 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: | 10 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers posing with roof trusses on the power house, 85 feet above the water level at the Prairie du Sac Dam. Note the brickwork in progress. |
| Date: | 10 12 1911 |
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| Description: | High water has scattered timber pilings through the construction camp. The office is on the right; the smokestacks of the temporary power plant are behind ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Wooden forms are in place for construction of the walls of the lock at the Prairie du Sac dam. The newly constructed power house is on the left. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Field mill powered by an International PD-40 power unit. The power unit was owned by Walter Brown; a bridge and a body of water are to the right of the bui... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View upriver towards the Rush River Dam. A man is standing on a rock in the middle of the river just below the dam; another man is sitting next to the powe... |
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