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| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the Portage Canal, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Portage and it's vicinity. |
| Date: | 01 10 1942 |
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| Description: | S.S. Robert M. La Follette splashing into the Industrial Canal at its launch. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | John MacVane (left) standing and talking with another man on the deck of the "USS Missouri" in the Panama Canal. |
| Date: | 06 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Opening of Navigation Season, First Giant Freighters Entering Ship Canal and Duluth-Superior Harbor." On reverse: "The navigation sea... |
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