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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Portage Canal and the canal docks. Caption reads: "The Canal Docks, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Portage canal looking east from the Canal Bridge. Boats are lines up along the shoreline on the left near a long building. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
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