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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: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Locks near De Pere, the only wooden pier on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Main Street Bridge raised to let boats pass through the locks on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Locks on the Mississippi River, a nine foot channel. A man is standing above the locks. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 1898 |
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| Description: | The Fox River seen from the hill behind the Catholic Church and looking toward the combined locks. In the distance is a paper mill. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the Portage Canal and lock. The Indian Agency House in the center background. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox-Wisconsin waterway pro... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A view of the Portage Canal. In the immediate foreground is the Fox River, then the lower locks and the canal itself. The Indian Agency House may be seen t... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A view of the canal locks on the Fox River. The Indian Agency House is in the background on a hill. |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south. The Fox River is in the foreground with the dam just visible in the lower right. The lock is seen in the center; the Montello... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A boat full of men and women is entering the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Looking across water and through the locks to a shoreline with a large hill in the background. A building is on the left, a wall and pilings are in the wat... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards oncrete locks on a narrow river in winter. Snow is on the ground, and a water tower and smokestack are on the other side of the... |
| 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 ... |
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