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Canal at Portage

Date: 1910
Description: View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal.
Print

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti...
Map or Atlas

Lodi, Columbia County, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Lodi, with inset of Public School. Includes index of churches and points of interest.
Photograph

Railroad Bridge at Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1877
Description: View of the lower level of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad bridge at the Wisconsin Dells that would have been used by pedestrians and horse-d...
Postcard

Lodi

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view from hill looking over a river towards Lodi, Wisconsin. Hills are in the distance.
Photograph

View from Totem Tower

Date: 
Description: View of the Wisconsin River and surrounding area from Totem Tower.
Photograph

Bridge at Wisconsin Dells

Date: 
Description: Bridge over the Wisconsin river.
Photograph

Indians at Demon's Anvil

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Indians, probably Ho-Chunk, in traditional costume, posing on and around Demon's Anvil.
Photograph

Pauqette Monument

Date: 1925
Description: The Pierre Pauquette monument located at the easterm terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoluti...
Photograph

Pauqette Monument

Date: 1925
Description: A view of the Pierre Pauquette monument located at the eastern terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the America...
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
Description: Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ...
Postcard

Covered Bridge

Date: 1900
Description: Covered bridge over river. Caption reads: "The Old Bridge, Portage, Wis."
Photograph

Covered Bridge

Date: 1930
Description: Covered bridge over river.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1915
Description: The Portage canal looking east from the Canal Bridge. Boats are lines up along the shoreline on the left near a long building.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1935
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...
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1945
Description: An aerial view of the Portage Canal, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the canal locks of the Portage Canal. Men are standing at the edge of the locks on the right.
Photograph

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1945
Description: An elevated view of Portage and it's vicinity.
Photograph

Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the...
Photograph

Tony Wise on a Boat

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Anthony Wise in a necktie and hat standing next to a Native American wearing a feather headress, on a boat adjacent to a dock.

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