Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura... |
Date: | 10 1829 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford as drawn by Seth Eastman. People are in a canoe in the river in the foreground. Across the river is the fort, other buildings around the fort... |
Date: | 1817 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Old Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Log Fort Crawford 1816-1829 Sketch Made From, Maj. S.H. Long's Description of 1817." |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
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:... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Governor Phillip La Follette addressing the Legislature. |
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Description: | The steamboat Canada at dock; cargo on lower deck, passengers on upper deck, and crowd waiting on the dock. The Canada was built in 1858, dis... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Sidewheel rafter, Annie Girdon. The crew is on deck and a raft of logs is in the foreground. Sign on wheel reads Annie Girdon, lightning pack... |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, next to a barge with other steamboats at the levee in Winona between 1870 and 1880. Railway cars are on a siding in... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
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Description: | The sidewheel packet, Belle of La Crosse, at a landing on the Upper Mississippi River. The sidewheel was built in 1868 and burned while in winter qu... |
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Description: | A bow view of the Sidney. Later named the Washington. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | The Clyde after being converted to a sternwheel rafter, pushing a tow with a locomotive on board. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, G.W. Hill, docked with its gangplank lowered and no one on deck. Later named Island Maid. There is a bridge in the bac... |
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Description: | View from raft towards the sternwheel rafter, Juniata, pushing a raft of lumber. The crew is posing on deck. The boat was later named the Red Win... |
Date: | 08 1913 |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Keokuk, at a landing during August, 1913. Several people watch from shore. The Keokuk operated between Keokuk and Quin... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the sidewheel packet, Keokuk, at the Winona, Minnesota levee between 1858 and 1866. A barge and railway cars are in the foreground. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si... |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Keokuk, at landing with railroad tracks in foregroun. Between 1907 and 1926. |
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