Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
Date: | 1834 |
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Description: | Reproduction of an oil painting of Fort Winnebago, which was built in 1827 by Major William Whistler and a detachment of the First Infantry. Caption reads:... |
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Description: | Interior view of the E.S. Purdy Drugstore, including four employees. |
Date: | 1831 |
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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... |
Date: | 06 1877 |
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Description: | The Guppey Guard, a Wisconsin state militia unit, in formation on a street in Portage. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul engine #689 on the turn table, surrounded by railroad employees. The pump house is in the background. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Portrait of Cornelius Wheeler of Portage, who served in Company I, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Haertel Brewery which later became the Eulberg Brewery. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Church built in 1855 for First Presbyterian congregation. In May 1892, fire destroyed the interior. The congregation sold the damaged building to the Bapti... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | A view of the office of the Wisconsin State Resister. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | The Wisconsin River looking downstream. The Wisconsin River end of the canal may be seen at the left. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The Turner-Rusch house. Frederick Jackson Turner's family lived here until 1882 when it was purchased by the Rusch Family. Julia Rusch was later (1950) pri... |
Date: | |
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Description: | The residence of Frederick Jackson Turner. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | The State Register newspaper office. This paper was published by Andrew Jackson Turner, father of Frederick Jackson Turner noted historian. Andrew Jackson ... |
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Description: | A view of St. Mary's Church and school. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Church and School, Portage, Wis." |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | The Red Bird monument, erected on the site of Ft. Winnebago and Red Bird's surrender. There is a cannon on the lawn behind the monument. A road is along th... |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence. |
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