Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
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Description: | The Alexander Mitchell excursion boat with passengers. |
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Description: | Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge). |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th... |
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Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Woman standing on soldier's rock on Madeline Island. |
Date: | 02 1948 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the enclosed wind sled shaped like the Maybe, sitting on the ice with La Pointe dock on the left. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Idora," owned by Charles Russell, docked at the Mission 'stub dock' on Madeline Island. A group of people are on boar... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View across water of the steamboat "Skater" cruising Lake Superior, with the Bayfield bluffs in the background. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. Caption at bottom: The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life ... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., near Trempealeau, taken between 1901 and 1910. |
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Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
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