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Postcard

Picturesque Fisherman's Docks

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Description: Color photographic postcard of the fisherman's dock taken from the harbor walkway. White boats are moored on either side of the Ahnapee River as it flows i...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ahnepee [sic] Harbor and River, Wisconsin : Showing Project of Improvement Recommended by the Board of Engineers

Date: 1876
Description: This 1876 map shows the mouth of the Ahnapee River at Algoma, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, with soundings given in tenths of a foot. Proposed improvements a...
Photograph

Ship, Bovine and a Man on a Horse

Date: 
Description: Composite photograph in the "Tall Tale" style. An enormous bovine stands on the front deck of the Pere Marquette 21, a steamer. On the right, on the...
Photograph

Ahnapee River

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: View from the Second Street bridge over the icy Ahnapee River towards Lake Michigan. A lighthouse is at the end of a jetty in the far background. Boats are...
Photograph

Kewaunee Carferry

Date: 09 15 1960
Description: View across water towards a carferry named "City of Flint," moored at a dock. There are buildings on the dock on the right.
Photograph

Kewaunee Harbor Entrance

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: View across water to ship moored at a dock. Smoke is coming out of the smokestack. Industrial buildings are across the water on the right.
Map or Atlas

Plat of Soundings Taken at Kewaunee Harbor, Wis.

Date: 1926
Description: This blueprint manuscript map shows buildings, railroads, and United States property. Water depths shown by soundings, tints, and isolines.
Map or Atlas

Maps from Atlas of Kewaunee County: Algoma

Date: 1937
Description: This is map 1 from a set of 4 taken from an atlas. The map shows streets, neighborhoods and proposed subdivision. Lake Michigan, Algoma Outer Harbor, the A...
Photograph

Wharf at Algoma

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of seagulls flying over fishing tugs moored at the wharf in Algoma. Small warehouse buildings line the wharf. Fish net drying reels are visib...
Photograph

End of a Cold Journey

Date: 02 18 1958
Description: The SS Meteor, a Great Lakes cargo steamship of whaleback design, coming into harbor. The ship is covered with snow and ice and the surface of the l...

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