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Map or Atlas

Map of the Route of the Military Road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard Via Fort Winnebago

Date: 1936
Description: This map is red and black ink on tracing cloth and is oriented with north to the upper left. This hand-drawn map shows a central portion of the military ro...
Poster

10th Wisconsin Regiment Recruiting Poster

Date: 
Description: Recruiting poster that reads "302 Dollars or 402 Dollars for Veterans will be paid for Volunteers for the 10th Wis. Regiment".
Photograph

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:...
Print

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...
Photograph

Guppey Guard

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

Cornelius Wheeler

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Cornelius Wheeler of Portage, who served in Company I, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Photograph

Grand Army of the Republic Hall

Date: 1921
Description: A young man stands outside of the Grand Army of the Republic hall.
Photograph

Columbus Foods Corporation Receiving Award Flag

Date: 03 06 1944
Description: Columbus Foods Corporation received an "A" for achievement award flag for food production and canning. Taking part in the ceremony, left to right are: J.L....
Photograph

Columbus Foods Corporation Employee Receiving Award

Date: 02 06 1944
Description: L.C. Richards, assistant factory superintendent of the Columbus Foods Corporation, receiving the first "A" Achievement award pin from Donald E. Smith, depu...
Photograph

Columbus Foods Corporation Employees with Award Pins

Date: 03 06 1944
Description: Five employees of Columbus Foods Corporation, who have been with the firm for 30 years or more, received "A" achievement award pins for food production and...
Photograph

War Work Awards Presentation Ceremony

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor...
Photograph

Employees of California Packing Corporation

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: The Arlington plant of California Packing Corporation employess holding award flag. They earned an "A" achievement award for food production. Left to right...
Photograph

Employees of California Packing Corporation

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Representative employees received "A" achievement award pins at a presentation program when the Arlington plant of the California Packing Corporation recei...
Map or Atlas

A Manuscript Map of Fort Winnebago

Date: 1830
Description: Fort Winnebago from an original drawing by Jefferson Davis.
Photograph

Armistice Day

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: View of cars and people on the 200-300 blocks of Broadway looking east.
Photograph

Red Bird Monument

Date: 1925
Description: The Red Bird monument, erected on the site of Ft. Winnebago and Red Bird's surrender. There is a cannon on the lawn behind the monument. A road is along th...
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 07 07 1929
Description: Miss Mary Prescott and Mrs. William McMahon, grandaughter and great grandaughter, respectively, of Pierre Paquette, appeared at a meeting called by the Wis...
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 ...
Photograph

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1963
Description: A view of two buildings at Fort Winnebago.
Photograph

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856).

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