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| Description: | View of the steamboat the "Lion" on the Mississippi River, at sunset. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sidewheel rafter, Annie Girdon. The crew is on deck and a raft of logs is in the foreground. Sign on wheel reads Annie Girdon, lightning pack... |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Belle of La Crosse, at a landing on the Upper Mississippi River. The sidewheel was built in 1868 and burned while in winter qu... |
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| Description: | The screw passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus" underway on the Great Lakes. Decks are filled with passengers. The "Christopher Columbus" was ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at a steamer loaded with passengers on the shoreline of the Yukon River. Several dogs are at the shoreline. Caption reads: "Stea... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a group of people standing on the "Henry Bosse" steamboat, a two-decked sternwheeler. The steamboat is attached to a barge along the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of three steamboats at dock. Men are sitting and standing on the boats. Partial names of two of the boats are visible. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View over water of a three-decked sternwheeler loaded with passengers and flying two large flags. The one at the back is a United States flag. There is a s... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of steamboat. The letters 'J.S.' can be seen at the top of the boat. There are many passengers on board. Two men stand in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | Composite of sixteen views mainly views of types of boats on the Mississippi River, including steamboats and excursion boats; one view is a bird-eye view o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a steamboat and a long raft or barge far out on the Mississippi River. Smoke is streaming from the smokestack of the sternwheeler. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The "St. Paul" was built in 1883 in St. Louis, Missouri for the St. Louis & St. Paul Packet Co., and ran under the Diamond Jo flag. The Eagle Yard in Dubuq... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water of an excursion steamboat on the Mississippi River. This image is a part of Frank Feiker's 'Souvenir' series. |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat Mendota under construction. A number of men, and one young child, are standing and posing with the boat. In the background is ... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | An illustration of three men sitting at a table in a saloon on a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elsa Seipp Madlener, center, poses with her husband Albert, right, and another man, possibly Ed Daily, the engineer of the steam launch "Lorely." A handwri... |
| Date: | 04 17 1866 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Scutanawbequon," owned by Francis (Frank) Barnes, launched on April 17, 1866, with seven people aboard. "She was 50 feet lon... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at L... |
| Date: | 03 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving after a drawing of the steamer Walk-in-the-Water, the first steamboat to sail the Great Lakes. |
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