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Drawing

Lock at Rexford Flats

Date: 1856
Description: An original illustration of the lock at Rexford Flats.
Photograph

Empire Mill

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

Canal Lighthouse, Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1953
Description: View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground.
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

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

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.
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...
Photograph

House near Canal

Date: 1962
Description: A view of a house beside the canal, from the south side.
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 ...
Postcard

Portage Canal

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the Portage Canal and the canal docks. Caption reads: "The Canal Docks, Portage, 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: 1962
Description: The Portage Canal between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, from the highway 51 crossing near the center of the city.
Photograph

Canal Locks

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

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