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Canal at Portage

Date: 1910
Description: View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal.
Postcard

Canal on the Fox River

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Scene on canal, Fox River, Appleton, Wis." Elevated view from hill looking down towards the river.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1910
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.
Postcard

Government Canal Locks

Date: 1910
Description: The government canal locks. Caption reads: "Government Canal Locks, Portage, Wis."
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1910
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...
Photograph

Chicago River near McCormick Works

Date: 1910
Description: Chicago River near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory). A sailboat, water tower, railroad cars and many industrial buildings line the shore...
Photograph

Elevated View of Canal

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view from a building of a canal in the city, with a boat on the canal. A bridge is also visible.
Photograph

Boathouse and Docks

Date: 1910
Description: Waterside view toward a couple canoeing by a boathouse and docks on the Ohio Canal, with a steel bridge in the left background. Smoke streams across the sk...
Postcard

River Scene, De Pere

Date: 1910
Description: Color enhanced view of the Fox River. Caption reads: "River Scene, De Pere, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Street Car System : T.M.E.R.&L.Co. Milwaukee and Suburbs

Date: 1910
Description: This ink on paper blue line print base map consists of eight separate pieces and shows city limits, The Milwaukee Electric Railroad & Light Company lines, ...

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