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| Date: | 1904 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the second floor balcony of the Charles A Grignon House at Kaukauna showing the historic boat canal and the Fox River beyond it. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of old U.S. Army model H-21 helicopter, assigned to help Vietnamese forces fight the Viet Cong in the mountain region of Vietnam. The patchwork... |
| Date: | 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Vietnamese Rangers escort a newly captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong down a gravel road in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietnam. The prisoner has ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying a child wrapped in a cloth crosses a log footbridge over a canal in the countryside in Vietnam. A boy is standing in the background and th... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | This map shows the Wisconsin and Fox River routes in green, and the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal routes in red. Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago, Grand C... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | McCormick Reaper Works, as seen from across the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River. There are stacks of lumber in the foreground, and railr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of what appears to be the McCormick Reaper Works, with the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River in the foreground. Smokestacks, railroad... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of factory buildings and smokestacks from across a river or industrial canal. The factory is probably the McCormick Reaper Works as seen from across t... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored commercial map of Wisconsin and portions of eastern Minnesota, Iowa, northern Illinois, and the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The map shows ra... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | NASA towboat, the "Clermont", pulling a liquid oxygen tank in the canal system of the Mississippi Test Support Department. Original caption reads (in part)... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal from the bay toward shore. A sailboat is on the left and a lighthouse is on shore on the right. C... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Prepared by Robert K. Boyd for his article "Up and down the Chippewa River" which appeared in the March 1931 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History, th... |
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