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Canals - Portage

Inland Navigation, Canals, Water, Lakes, Excavation, Dredging Portage Lake, Mich. [Image of a dredge in operation.]

Scanned: March 5, 2008


Canals - Portage

Inland Navigation, Canals, Water, Lakes, Excavation, Dredging U. S. Engineers Dredge "Gaillard" dredging lower entry. [Image of the dredge working on the lower entry of the canal.]

Scanned: March 5, 2008


Canals - Portage

Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Workboats, Water, Lakes, Excavation, Dredging Upper Entry repairs to breakwater. [Photo of the breakwater and repair equipment.]

Scanned: March 6, 2008


Dredge on Torch Lake

Excavation, Dredging, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Water, Lakes Dredge on Torch Lake, most likely C&H in Hubbell [C&H No. 2].

Scanned: August 1, 2012


Tamarack Dredge

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Excavation, Dredging, Water, Lakes Tamarack Dredge [View of dredge and another building. Snow still covers the ground and the water is slushy.]

Scanned: May 3, 2010


Dredges

Excavation, Dredging, Water, Lakes, The Col. D. D. Gaillard, consistent dredge visitor to Portage Lake and Ontonagon harbor. Serviced by either of two tugs, the Lake Superior (successor to the Gen. C. B. Sears) or the Marquette (successor to the Essayons), this steam dredge buckets its lake bottom sand into steel scows to be emptied in deep portions of water. [Image of the dredge in operation.]

Scanned: January 23, 2007


Dredges - New Jersey

Excavation, Dredging, Water, Lakes, [Image of the dredge New Jersey, the worlds largest of its type.]

Scanned: February 15, 2007


Dredges

Excavation, Dredging, Water, Lakes, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor Pryor's dredge in Torch Lake Cut and tug Ethel J. Pryor about 1895. [Several men are shown working the dredge.]

Scanned: February 26, 2007