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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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

McCormick Reaper Works Wood Stock Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works Factory and Rail Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Appleton.
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...
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.
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: 02 05 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Portage Canal, looking east from the canal bridge. A man is standing on a large platform on the left side of the canal near a...
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.
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.
Magazine or Periodical

Harper's Weekly Canal Drawing

Date: 08 02 1862
Description: Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg.
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

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

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a man with two mules on the left pulling a boat up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A large wooden building is on the right bank in the behi...
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...
Photograph

Ceremony

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Description: A view of a group of men wearing long overcoats and hats, standing on rough ground. Two men in the center are shaking hands, and a few others are holding s...
Photograph

Columbian Exposition View

Date: 1893
Description: View of the canal area of the Columbian Exposition grounds looking north from near the front of the Machinery building (at left). The South canal is in the...
Photograph

Dredge Winneconne

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Description: View across water of the dredge "Winneconne" on the Fox River canal. Although undated the photograph was probably taken during the 1940s. The "Winneconne"...

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