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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.
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Photographer Setting Up Outdoor View of IHC McCormick Works

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: Rear view of company photographer setting up shot of IHC's McCormick Works docks from across the waterfront. Two men are in a long wooden boat, with the na...
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Canal Lighthouse, Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1953
Description: View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground.
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Portage Canal

Date: 1885
Description: Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca...
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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...
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Neuss Works

Date: 1922
Description: Boats and ships in a canal surrounding International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany.
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International Harvester Canal

Date: 1912
Description: Three men in a covered boat on an International Harvester logging(?) canal surrounded by trees on either side.
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Pavilion and Row Boat

Date: 11 01 1916
Description: Pavilion at Kosciusko Park lagoon at W. Lincoln Avenue and S. 7th Street. A rowboat is floating in the lagoon.
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Tugboat at Work

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Description: Elevated view of tugboat pulling a steamer caked in ice in a canal. Steam is rising from the water and an open drawbridge can be seen in the background. On...
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Fox River Canal

Date: 08 04 1962
Description: A boat travels up the Fox River. In the background are a canal and locks and factory smokestacks.
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Boat in Canal

Date: 08 04 1962
Description: A boat in the Fox River Canal, headed up river. This particular lock, the Ripide Croche Lock, is located just north of Wrightstown.
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Dredging Barge

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Description: View from shoreline of a dredging barge on a canal. Several large rocks are scattered in the foreground.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a man with two mules on the left pulling a boat up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A large wooden building is on the right bank in the behi...
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Opening of Peterboro Hydraulic Lift Lock

Date: 1904
Description: Official opening of the sixty-six foot Peterboro hydraulic lift lock, built in 1904 on the Trent Canal. People gather in boats and along the shore to celeb...
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North Vietnamese Irrigation

Date: 1967
Description: Canal in a hamlet near Phat Diem, described by photographer David Schoenbrun as part of an extensive system of irrigation. On a path along the canal a man ...
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Sampan on Vietnamese Canal

Date: 1967
Description: Person steering a sampan, loaded with what appears to be fiber, on an irrigation canal near the North Vietnamese city of Phat Diem. On the right is a group...
Postcard

Inter Lake Pulp Mill

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Description: View of the Inter Lake Pulp Mill. Smoke is billowing out of the mill's smokestack. A boat is crossing the canal between two lakes. Caption reads: "Inter La...
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Canal, Binh Hung

Date: 1962
Description: Canal in Binh Hung Vietnam with numerous small boats and a crowd of people walking alongside. In the background is a large cross and a number of large that...
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American Boat on Canal

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down towards shoreline of troops on board a paddle boat on a canal. The boat flies an American flag. Other people stand on the shoreline and o...
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Mooring Basin

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: View from snowy shoreline of Mooring Basin at bay end of Ship Canal. The boat moored in the foreground is named "Allie." It is tethered to a post on the sh...

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