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| Date: | 1834 |
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| 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:... |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Purdy house. Angled view from street towards the right side of the house, with a horse-drawn buggy. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The Indian Agency House when the land was farmed by E.S. Baker of Portage, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Columbia County Court House and Post Office. Caption reads: "Court House and Post Office at Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Clough house, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby. A man is standing and holding the hands of two young girls in front of the fenc... |
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