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| 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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., underway taken between 1901 and 1907. Oval picture inscribed Burlington, July 10, 1907. |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Sidney, leaving Lansing, Iowa. Later named Washington. A crane on the front of the steamer is attached to a passeng... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., near Trempealeau, taken between 1901 and 1910. |
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| Description: | A bow view of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., near Lyons, Iowa (now called Clinton) with an excursion party aboard taken between 1901 and 1910. Brid... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay. |
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| Description: | Loggers posed between two large stacks of logs near Antigo, perhaps the camp of D. Sulivan. |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Keokuk, at landing with railroad tracks in foregroun. Between 1907 and 1926. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., underway, taken between 1901 and 1910. The magnificent Excursion Str. J.S. burned on the evening of June 25,... |
| Date: | 03 1866 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Phil Sheridan, at Wheeling, West Virginia in March, 1866. Sign on side of boat reads: "Cincinnati and Wheeling Packet, Phil... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sternwheel excursion, "G.W. Hill," leaving Bellevue with a Red Cross Excursion. Later named "Island Maid." |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Red Wing, at a landing on the upper Mississippi River between 1870 and 1882. There is a bridge behind the boat on the left. S... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, after running aground near Muscatine. The spar is set and the line out. Dan Sauer, the carpenter, is holding th... |
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