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Photograph

De Pere Lock on Fox River

Date: 1897
Description: De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River.
Photograph

De Pere Lock on Fox River

Date: 1897
Description: Locks near De Pere, the only wooden pier on the Fox River.
Photograph

Fox River From Catholic Church Hill

Date: 06 1898
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.
Painting

Grand Kakalin (South Kaukauna) Painting

Date: 1856
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...
Painting

Double Lock Painting

Date: 1856
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...
Painting

Rapid Croche, Fox River Painting

Date: 1856
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...
Painting

Grand Chute Painting

Date: 1856
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...
Print

Ship Canal, Sault St. Marie

Date: 1873
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...
Map or Atlas

Proposed Plan for a Lock on the Fox River

Date: 08 17 1874
Description: This manuscript drawing provides a side elevation, plan, and perspective view for a proposed lock on the Fox River.
Map or Atlas

Water Power Location in the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
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...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing the Route of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal : Being an Improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, and Connection of the Same by Canal

Date: 1868
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 ...
Map or Atlas

Fox and Wisconsin Rivers from Green Bay to Mississippi River

Date: 1875
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...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Town of the Island in the Outlet of Winabago Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, railroad depots, locks, bridges, dams, canals, U.S. light house, college grounds, a steam boat landing, and ...
Map or Atlas

Index Map of the Fox River, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This map shows the distances along Fox River, as well as adjacent lakes and railroads, between Green Bay and the Wisconsin River. Lake Michigan is on the f...

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