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: | 1877 |
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Description: | The Moffat Octagon House, erected in 1855 by Judge John S. Moffat. |
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: | 1832 |
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Description: | An early type of sidewheel passenger and freight steamboat The Milwaukie, also known as The Milwaukee. It was used on Lake Erie and upper lak... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | The harbor, showing the sidewheel packet, "Belle of La Crosse," and the sidewheel ferry "Alex McGregor." Other boats are also seen including two barges loa... |
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: | 1888 |
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Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | The screw passenger and freight vessel, Manistee. Faint typing on picture describes the loss of the Manistee on November 16, 1883. The ship <... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin. |
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: | 09 22 1860 |
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Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
Date: | 1831 |
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Description: | Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of the members of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention and their families standing for a portrait at Mount Vernon. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen. |
Date: | 06 07 1880 |
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Description: | Formal studio portrait of Sybil P. Hanks, her two sisters, DeWitt Ramsey, and another man. |
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