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Old Fort Winnebago

Date: 1834
Description: Reproduction of an oil painting of Fort Winnebago, which was built in 1827 by Major William Whistler and a detachment of the First Infantry. Caption reads:...
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Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti...
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Guppey Guard

Date: 06 1877
Description: The Guppey Guard, a Wisconsin state militia unit, in formation on a street in Portage.
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Portage View

Date: 1856
Description: View of Portage, including St. Mary's Church.
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Portage Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background.
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Portage Turn Table and Pump House

Date: 1885
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul engine #689 on the turn table, surrounded by railroad employees. The pump house is in the background.
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Haertel Brewery

Date: 1880
Description: Exterior view of the Haertel Brewery which later became the Eulberg Brewery.
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First Presbyterian Church

Date: 1855
Description: Church built in 1855 for First Presbyterian congregation. In May 1892, fire destroyed the interior. The congregation sold the damaged building to the Bapti...
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Wisconsin State Register

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the office of the Wisconsin State Resister.
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Turner-Rusch House

Date: 1890
Description: The Turner-Rusch house. Frederick Jackson Turner's family lived here until 1882 when it was purchased by the Rusch Family. Julia Rusch was later (1950) pri...
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State Register Office

Date: 1880
Description: The State Register newspaper office. This paper was published by Andrew Jackson Turner, father of Frederick Jackson Turner noted historian. Andrew Jackson ...
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Purdy House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of the Purdy house. Angled view from street towards the right side of the house, with a horse-drawn buggy.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1897
Description: The Indian Agency House when the land was farmed by E.S. Baker of Portage, Wisconsin.
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
Description: Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ...
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Old Fort Winnebago Cemetery

Date: 1898
Description: View through the closed gate, which has a sign that reads: Old Fort Winnebago Cemetery. Overgrown plants surround the gate, and trees surround a monument j...
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Fort Winnebago

Date: 1897
Description: The commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago.
Drawing

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1834
Description: View of Fort Winnebago.
Drawing

Old Fort Winnebago

Date: 1834
Description: Caption reads: "Old Ft. Winnebago".
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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Commissary Warehouse Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: The commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago.

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