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| 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: | 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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., underway taken between 1901 and 1907. Oval picture inscribed Burlington, July 10, 1907. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay. |
| 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Riverboats tied at the levee in La Crosse with the Gypsy in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., taken near Wabasha. Caption reads: "Steamer J.S. Wabasha, Minn." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, on the Mississippi River taken in 1909. St. Paul, Minnesota is seen in the background. Later n... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Thistle, carrying an excursion party on the Fox River. The fare from Berlin to Oshkosh, a distance of about 25 miles was ... |
| Date: | 06 25 1910 |
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| Description: | The wreck of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., after being destroyed by fire. Caption reads: "This wreck of the Str. J.S. Burned June 25, 1910, now ly... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The Goar and Stinson log driving crew on the Clam River. |
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