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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the canal locks of the Portage Canal. Men are standing at the edge of the locks on the right. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A boat in the Fox River Canal, headed up river. This particular lock, the Ripide Croche Lock, is located just north of Wrightstown. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Engraved image of a lock and dam at Sault St. Marie. Two men are operating the sluice as ships are waiting on the opposite side of the lock. Another man is... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a lock at Appleton, with views of mills and other structures in the background. |
| Date: | 08 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning. |
| Date: | 08 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Boaters passing by through the Tenney Park lock in three motor boats. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a motor launch with striped canopy moored along the shore just above the Fox River Lock on Buffalo Lake. A finely dressed party o... |
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| Description: | Lower locks on Grand Chute, Wisconsin, on the Fox River. |
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| Description: | View of a lock on the Fox River. There is a boat in the canal, and pedestrians standing on the canal wall on the right. Caption reads: "Second Lock, Kaukau... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee boys, John and David Malec, in Madison to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Louis Malec at 1134 E. Gorham Street. John is fishing on the Yahara River... |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above t... |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Boaters and fishermen on the Yahara River moving into Lake Mendota just after the water reached exit level at the Tenney Park lock. |
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| Description: | View of the locks at Tenney Park where Lake Mendota meets the Yahara River. A boat with five people is passing through the canal. Caption reads: "The Locks... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from East College Avenue bridge of motor boats exiting Lock #4 on the Upper Fox River. |
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