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| 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: | 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the Portage Canal and lock. The Indian Agency House in the center background. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox-Wisconsin waterway pro... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Portage Canal, with trees and open land on either side. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the Portage Canal. In the immediate foreground is the Fox River, then the lower locks and the canal itself. The Indian Agency House may be seen t... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Steele Tavern, built in 1849. The large, two-story wooden building with a rear wing, is in a state of neglect. The portion on the left has twelve over eigh... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across fence and field towards the Lutheran church and cemetery of a German or Norwegian settlement near the intersection of Highway 16 and C... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A view of the canal locks on the Fox River. The Indian Agency House is in the background on a hill. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the canal locks of the Portage Canal. Men are standing at the edge of the locks on the right. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin River of the house at 506 W. Edgewater Street, built by Zona Gale in 1906 for her parents after the successful publication of her f... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A marker at the site of the former village of Oshaukuta on Highway 51, north of Portage. The marker states: "This tablet marks the site where the village o... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Capt. Huldreich M. Stienecker, Michigan, inspecting a load of peas at a cannery where German prisoners of war are working. Steinecker is in charge of the p... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoners of war line up for inspection outside their barracks before going to work at a local cannery. |
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