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| 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: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town, looking northwest. The Chippewa River is in the foreground, with a lot of buildings, an intersection, and distant hills. One bui... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log jam at Big Eddy on the Chippewa River during the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log drive. There is a bridge in the distance, and trees are along the s... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Warden Kramer and his assistant in a boat removing an illegal snag line from the Wolf River. |
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| Description: | View of rock formations known as the Sugar Bowl and the Ink Stand. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the overhang at the geological formation known as Black Hawk's Leap. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a driving crew standing on a log raft on the North Branch of the Popple River, a tributary of the Pine River. They are holding long ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Woman seated on flat rocks, watching rushing water of the Wolf River. |
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| Description: | Stereograph, of what is possibly a diorama, that contains a badger, two owls, a chipmunk, plants, cattails, dried grass, logs, simulated rocks and two shel... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along eroded shoreline of the damage from the 1911 flood of the Black River. A city street had been washed away. Three men are looking at the river. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of damage from the 1911 flood of the Black River. An entire wall of a building is gone, and debris is along the river banks. |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of four women and a man standing on the back steps of a building. On the right is a woman standing on a wooden walkway with a railin... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The Meinhardt family assembled for a picnic in their garden. A river or lake is in the far background. The table is set with china and flatware. Among the ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | August Derleth posing on a boat tied up to a pier on the Wisconsin River. With him are Ruth Marshall (seated), another woman, and a dog. Four men are stand... |
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