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| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Depot owned by the Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad, which was owned by the N.C. Foster Lumber Company. |
| Date: | 08 25 1912 |
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| Description: | A band excursion on the sternwheel excursion, "Thistle." The sternwheel was previously named "J.H. Crawford." |
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| Description: | The screw tug, "Boscobel" built in 1881, is at a wooden dock with cordwood stacked on deck inside her forward gangway, perhaps indicating that she burned w... |
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| Description: | A bow view of the Sidney. Later named the Washington. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Clyde after being converted to a sternwheel rafter, pushing a tow with a locomotive on board. |
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| Description: | The screw passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," leaving Chicago. Skyline of Chicago is in background with one building with sign reading Armo... |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Bow side view of the screw bulk freighter, Mataafa, underway. Originally named Pennsylvania. |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Sidney, later named Washington, landing at Bellevue. Passengers are disembarking. A sign on the ship reads Streckfu... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol (fourth capitol, third in Madison) under construction. View from South Hamilton Street. |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | The monoplane built by Carl S. Bates, an aeronautical inventor originally from Clear Lake, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Aztalan Museum after restoration. The building, originally a church with a steeple, was built in 1852. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the memorial pillars on the Warner Memorial Road near Baraboo. The pillars were erected in 1923. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of downtown Black River Falls. |
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