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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: | "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build... |
| 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: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 08 17 1874 |
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| Description: | This manuscript drawing provides a side elevation, plan, and perspective view for a proposed lock on the Fox River. |
| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Map showing the northern water routes between Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean Relief shown by hachures. Includes Profile of the Erie Canal, table of ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a lock on the Fox River. Caption reads: "The Locks, Berlin, Wis." |
| 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. |
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