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Photograph

Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
Photograph

Canal at Portage

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

Empire Mill

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view over canal towards the Empire Mill.
Photograph

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal

Date: 1875
Description: The harbor piers and the entrance to the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Men are standing on the shoreline.
Postcard

Scene on the Canal

Date: 1940
Description: Canal scene with a tugboat featured in the foreground and buildings on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Scene on the Canal — Sturgeon Bay, Door Coun...
Postcard

The Canal, Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1913
Description: View of the canal. Caption reads: "The Canal, Stugeon[sic] Bay, Wis."
Photograph

Bridge, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: View of the bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay canal.
Photograph

Bridge, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: View from the shoreline of a bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay canal.
Map or Atlas

Plat of Madison

Date: 1854
Description: Madison Plat Map.
Photograph

Corner of Main Street and Tayco Street

Date: 1870
Description: The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ...
Map or Atlas

City of Appleton Plat Map

Date: 
Description: Plat map of the east central part of the city.
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
Description: Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ...
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

Canal Locks

Date: 1935
Description: A close view of the canal locks.
Photograph

Canal Locks

Date: 1935
Description: A distant view of the canal locks.
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

Portage Canal

Date: 1915
Description: The Portage canal looking east from the Canal Bridge. Boats are lines up along the shoreline on the left near a long building.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 02 05 1928
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...
Photograph

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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