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| Description: | People on recreational boats waiting for the Menasha Locks to open into 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: | 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: | 08 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A boat travels up the Fox River. In the background are a canal and locks and factory smokestacks. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A boat entering a hydraulic lift lock located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The lock structure is an imposing series of steel and concrete towers with ... |
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| Description: | A boat entering a hydraulic lift lock located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The lock structure is an imposing series of steel and concrete towers, with... |
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| Description: | A boat half way up a hydraulic lift lock located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The lock structure is an imposing series of steel and concrete towers, w... |
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| Description: | A hydraulic lift lock with a boat at a full vertical elevation of 66 feet in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The lock structure is an imposing series of ste... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Official opening of the sixty-six foot Peterboro hydraulic lift lock, built in 1904 on the Trent Canal. People gather in boats and along the shore to celeb... |
| 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... |
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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: | 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: | 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... |
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