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| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge over the Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "The New Bridge on the Wisconsin, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Portage and it's vicinity. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View up dirt road or track towards a two-story L-shaped frame house with a fence along the front. The right end of the house has a roof suspended over the ... |
| Date: | 10 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a tour steamboat docked on the shore of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from elevated rocks on shoreline of a steamboat on the Wisconsin River touring the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of steamboat on the Wisconsin River touring the Wisconsin Dells. The riverbanks are on either side. |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arlington in Columbia Cou... |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | Anthony Wise in a necktie and hat standing next to a Native American wearing a feather headress, on a boat adjacent to a dock. |
| Date: | 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Two women walking on the sidewalk along Broadway. Photograph taken from under the railroad bridge at Kilbourn (now Wisconsin Dells). The Wisconsin River is... |
| Date: | 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Construction equipment on a pontoon in the Wisconsin River during construction of the Wisconsin Dells bridge. Cars can be seen on the old railroad bridge i... |
| Date: | 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Cars in the parking lot at Stand Rock Amphitheater, where the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial is performed. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | S-1 freight meets circus train at the Dells Minirama. DBC, Steamboat Winnebago, powerhouse. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Second to last steamboat on the river taken before 1931, burned in 1931. Taken from Romance Cliff, "The Apollo" is shown coming through with smoke billowin... |
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