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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: | 1915 |
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Description: | A woman adjusts her motorcycle in the middle of a street. A motorcycle is parked next to her. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Winter scene with a pedestrian holding an umbrella during a snowstorm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
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Description: | Unloading barrels of goods from the "Ogdensburg" in the Milwaukee harbor. |
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Description: | On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover. |
Date: | 10 1912 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the Amer... |
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Description: | Motorcyclists at the start of the race, probably at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
Date: | 07 04 1912 |
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Description: | Members of the Oshkosh Equal Suffrage League in their 4th of July float made up with a sail boat. Banners read "Votes for Women" and "We are Rudderless, We... |
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. |
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Description: | A bow view of the screw bulk freighter, "Carl D. Bradley," underway. Black smoke is pouring from smokestack. |
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 sternwheel excursion, "Sidney," loading passengers at Red Wing. The gangplank is lowered and passengers are on deck and on the landing. Later named Was... |
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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: | 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: | View along shoreline of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., getting ready to leave for Winona. A crowd is watching from the landing. A crane on the fron... |
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