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Portage Canal and Lock

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of the Portage canal and lock, with the Indian Agency House in the center background. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox-Wisconsin ...
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Menominee Reservation Agency

Date: 1935
Description: U.S. Department of the Indian agency building on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the Indian Agency House, built for John Harris Kinzie (the Indian Agent to the Ho-Chunk Nation) and his wife in 1832.
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Old Indian Agency House

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of the Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. View of Portage Canal in foreground. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox...
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Portage Canal

Date: 1935
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...
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Portage Canal

Date: 1935
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...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Administration Building

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior of University of Wisconsin-Madison building at 831 State Street. Looking southeast at the intersection of State and Park Streets. This sandstone s...
Manuscript

Optioned Lands in Site I

Date: 1935
Description: List of Juneau County landowners and details of the sale of their land to the United States Resettlement Administration.
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
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New Brundage Home

Date: 1935
Description: Brundage family in their new home after resettlement with assistance of United States Resettlement Administration. From left to right: Walter, Marvin (4), ...
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Old Brundage Farm in Site I

Date: 1935
Description: View of the dilapidated farm from which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration.
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Car Stuck in Mud

Date: 1935
Description: View from rear left of a car belonging to a United States Resettlement Administration field worker stuck in a muddy road. A man stands at the front of the ...
Photograph

Pushing Car Out of Mud

Date: 1935
Description: A United States Resettlement Administration field worker pushing his car out of a muddy patch of road.
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Scenery at Necedah

Date: 1935
Description: View looking north across the Highway 21 bridge at Necedah Lake. A man, likely a Resettlement Administration worker, stands holding a pipe in the foregroun...
Photograph

Three Men Posing Around a Stump

Date: 1935
Description: Three men, likely United States Resettlement Administration workers, pose around a stump.
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Formal Portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1935
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer, probably during the time he was Chair of the three-person Social Security Board from 1935-1937.
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Stewart Campbell and John Givens

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Stewart Campbell (left) and John Givens, VIPs in Matanuska Colony administration. Campbell was property manager; Givens an archite...
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Group Portrait

Date: 1935
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men and women standing in front of a log building.
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Group Portrait in front of Log Building

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Left to right, Daniel E. McGrath, special U.S. Asst. Atty. Gen. Sent to colony to set up law enforcement; Mrs. S.R. Fuller, Jr.; S...

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