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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 ...
Photograph

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...
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: 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...
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...
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1929
Description: A view of the canal locks on the Fox River. The Indian Agency House is in the background on a hill.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the canal locks of the Portage Canal. Men are standing at the edge of the locks on the right.
Book or Pamphlet

Lock and Dam

Date: 1903
Description: Lock and dam system on a canal along the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
Photograph

Paper Mill

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the ...
Photograph

Fox River Lock

Date: 08 03 1962
Description: Elevated view of the Guard Lock on the Fox River Canal, looking east from the Highway 55 bridge.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Opening of Peterboro Hydraulic Lift Lock

Date: 
Description: Profile view of the sixty-six foot Peterboro hydraulic lift lock, built in 1904 on the Trent Canal. People gather on the top of the lock. The lift lock is ...
Postcard

Canal Lock

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard of a steamboat passing through the canal lock along the Fox River. Caption reads: "Canal Lock, Appleton, Wis."
Painting

Rapid Croche, Fox River Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is...

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