Date: | 06 1877 |
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Description: | The Guppey Guard, a Wisconsin state militia unit, in formation on a street in Portage. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye map of Portage, with insets of the Court House and the Public School. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Fairgrounds. In the foreground is a fence and dwellings. |
Date: | 1884 |
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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. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Haertel Brewery which later became the Eulberg Brewery. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | A view of the office of the Wisconsin State Resister. |
Date: | 1890 |
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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... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | The State Register newspaper office. This paper was published by Andrew Jackson Turner, father of Frederick Jackson Turner noted historian. Andrew Jackson ... |
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: | 1855 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1831 |
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Description: | Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856). |
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: | 1870 |
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Description: | Stereograph of the Columbia County Jail. People are on the sidewalk near the entrance. |
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: | 1800 |
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Description: | This map shows the land claim owned by the Portage Canal Company and includes an index of landownership and landmarks. The Wisconsin and Portage River, the... |
Date: | 1836 |
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Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and no... |
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