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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: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | The Wyocena Farmers' Cooperative, a feed mill with railroad tracks along the side of the building. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the roof of a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a collapsed ice house. |
| Date: | 09 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a collapsed ice house towards the shoreline looking north. |
| Date: | 04 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room. |
| Date: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Quonset hut-style Wyocena Farmer's Cooperative. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dry milk plant with a very tall smokestack. Some trucks are parked on the left. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | The Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lower Dells boats and docks covered with pollution from the paper mills up north. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Large mouse being lifted by crane onto Bennett's Table Talk at 211-213 Broadway. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Portage Canal and the canal docks. Caption reads: "The Canal Docks, Portage, Wis." |
| 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: | 1962 |
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| Description: | The Portage Canal between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, from the highway 51 crossing near the center of the city. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 02 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Portage Canal, looking east from the canal bridge. A man is standing on a large platform on the left side of the canal near a... |
| Date: | 06 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background. |
| Date: | 02 09 1949 |
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| Description: | One of five aerial views of Portage, including the frozen Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 04 23 1970 |
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| Description: | James Bowen, a York landowner in the foreground, and two other men set up a large Caterpillar generator to operate the sound system for Sound Storm. The ge... |
| Date: | 04 23 1970 |
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| Description: | Four workers amid construction of food stalls out of plywood a day or two before the beginning of the Sound Storm music festival. |
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