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| Date: | 09 18 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of pile drivers at work on the coffer dam. Pilings are also floating within the confines of the dam. The shoreline can be seen in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south. The Fox River is in the foreground with the dam just visible in the lower right. The lock is seen in the center; the Montello... |
| Date: | 10 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east across the power house, lock, and uncompleted portion of the dam. The concrete plant is seen on the far bank. The rising water o... |
| Date: | 02 28 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, looking east, of the power house, lock, and dam on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 08 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the completed power house and dam, looking east at the north, or upstream, side of the structure. On the far shore, the site of the gravel... |
| 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... |
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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: | "....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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from shoreline looking downstream at the Fox River locks, with a bridge behind it. A boat is tied along the shoreline just below... |
| Date: | 05 21 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the General Zebulon Pike Lock and Dam No. 11, located on the Mississippi River between Dubuque, Iowa, and Grant County, Wisconsin. The Loc... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Trempealeau Wis. on the Great River Road overlooking Lock & Dam No. 6 on the Upper Mississippi." On reverse: "Lock & Dam No. 6, one o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Viroqua, Wis." On reverse: "U.S. Government Dam on the Mississippi River." A cargo barge is about to pass through lock... |
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