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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Log jam on the St. Croix River at the Head of the Dalles. The jam was about five miles long, and 50,000,000 board feet of white pine was piled up. |
| 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: | 11 08 1906 |
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| Description: | Two Civil War watercolor drawings by John Gaddis, Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, showing the regiment in bivouac, and later their headquarte... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., landing passengers, taken between 1901 and 1910. Crowds are on riverbank and there are buildings in background. A cr... |
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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: | 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay. |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Keokuk, at landing with railroad tracks in foregroun. Between 1907 and 1926. |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Red Wing, with the excursion barge, Mae, at a landing. Caption reads: "Saint Paul, Minn. Steamboat Landing." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, on the Mississippi River near Lansing, Iowa. Later named the Senator. Small boats are line up on a pier ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, underway. Sign on wheel reads: "St. Louis, Dubuque, St. Paul, Diamond Jo Line." Later named the Senator. |
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