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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the ... |
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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... |
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| Description: | View along the right side of the third lock and draw bridge spanning the Fox River. Caption reads: "Third Lock and Draw Bridge, Appleton, Wis." |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a steamboat passing through the canal lock along the Fox River. Caption reads: "Canal Lock, Appleton, Wis." |
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| Description: | Postcard of the government lock along the Fox River in Kimberly. A house and fence are along the shoreline to the left. Caption reads: "Government Lock at ... |
| Date: | 12 23 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Street bridge and nearby locks along the Fox River. Caption reads: "Lake Street Bridge, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | This map shows the dams and locks of the Fox River between Neenah, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Kaukauna, in Outagamie County. The cities and villag... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | This map, from G.K. Warren's 1876 Report on the transportation route along the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers in the State of Wisconsin between the Mississippi R... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Shows landowner's lots, roads, railroads, and Fox River. Also includes certificate of survey text. Includes significant manuscript annotations depicting th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a lock at Appleton, with views of mills and other structures in the background. |
| Date: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Work on the new Tenney Park lock and dam is progressing on schedule. A temporary spillway (not shown) has been built to divert the Yahara River from the co... |
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