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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Purdy house. View from street towards the house, with a stone wall along the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A monument erected to "the memory of our historic dead" erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1915. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of the Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet marker. "This tablet marks the place near which Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet entered the Wisconsin R... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of the Indian Agency House, before restoration. Built in 1832. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Indian Agency House, before restoration. This house built in 1832 by the United States Government. Restored by Colonial Dames between 1929-1932. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across grounds toward the high school. Caption reads: "High School at Portage, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The sign on the gate reads: "Old Fort Winnebago Cemetery". Overgrown plants surround the fence and gate. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Old Fort Winnebago Military Cemetery". View through the open gates of the cemetery. Trees surround a monument just inside the gates. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Fort Winnebago surgeon's quarters before restoration. Plans used in the remodeling of 1834 (furnished by the War department) were employed to determine the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Portage Canal, dug by hand in 1849 and completed in 1851. It was renovated by the Army Corps of Engineers after the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The government canal locks. Caption reads: "Government Canal Locks, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Portage Canal at the Wisconsin River, showing the upper lock. Caption reads: "Upper Lock and Wisconsin River Portage Wis. No. 10". A group of people ar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Portage canal looking east from the Canal Bridge. Boats are lines up along the shoreline on the left near a long building. |
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