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Photograph

Canal at Portage

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

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...
Photograph

S.S. Harvester

Date: 07 15 1911
Description: The S.S. Harvester on the building ways before launching. The ship was built for the Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harveste...
Photograph

Christening the S.S. Harvester

Date: 07 15 1911
Description: Christening ceremony for the S.S. Harvester. The ship was built for the Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harvester. The 545-fo...
Postcard

Canal on the Fox River

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Scene on canal, Fox River, Appleton, Wis." Elevated view from hill looking down towards the river.
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Caption reads: "Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal."
Postcard

The Canal, Sturgeon Bay

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

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

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...
Photograph

International Harvester Canal

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

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.
Photograph

Elevated View of Canal

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view from a building of a canal in the city, with a boat on the canal. A bridge is also visible.
Photograph

Boathouse and Docks

Date: 1910
Description: Waterside view toward a couple canoeing by a boathouse and docks on the Ohio Canal, with a steel bridge in the left background. Smoke streams across the sk...
Map or Atlas

Map of Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Date: 1918
Description: This 1918 map of Chippewa County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, rural residences, churches, schools, ...
Photograph

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...
Postcard

River Scene, De Pere

Date: 1910
Description: Color enhanced view of the Fox River. Caption reads: "River Scene, De Pere, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Street Car System : T.M.E.R.&L.Co. Milwaukee and Suburbs

Date: 1910
Description: This ink on paper blue line print base map consists of eight separate pieces and shows city limits, The Milwaukee Electric Railroad & Light Company lines, ...

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