Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | View from dock of the U.S. Coast Guard ship "Woodrush" arriving at the La Pointe dock to clear ice. Two trucks are on the dock, one with a piano. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View from boat of the Coast Guard ship at La Pointe. A shoreline is in the far background. |
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Description: | Unloading barrels of goods from the "Ogdensburg" in the Milwaukee harbor. |
Date: | 08 30 1906 |
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Description: | A screw passenger excursion vessel or whaleback, the Christopher Columbus, passing through the Broadway Bridge. |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Text at bottom reads: "McDougal [sic] Whaleback. [manufactured at] West Superior, Wis." The steamer is under construction in the American Steel Barge Compa... |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Whaleback steamer under construction in the American Steel Barge Company shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin. Text at bottom of card reads: "McDougall Passenge... |
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Description: | The sidewheel passenger and freight, "Milwaukee," at Dewey Hill, Grand Haven, Michigan, at the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway depot. |
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Description: | A man is standing in front of huge blocks of ice at the American Shipbuilding Company. The ship "War Otter" is in the background. A large chunk of ice tied... |
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Description: | The Peter Grignon Shipyard next to the Marine Iron Company. |
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Description: | The American Shipbuilding Company yard in winter with ships and a derrick in the center of the image. |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Captian Alex McDougall's passenger whaleback steamer the "Christopher Columbus" being built in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company. |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Text at bottom reads: Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." Whaleback steamer in the shipyards of the American Steel Barge Company. |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Text at bottom reads: Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." Captain Alex McDougall's whaleback steamer in the shipyard of the American Ste... |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | International A-5 beer truck in front of "Streets of Paris" ocean-liner attraction at the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. The truck was owned by Chas ... |
Date: | 1847 |
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Description: | Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1847. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Michigan Avenue... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Southeast panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard and canal. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. In 19... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | A hydroplane built by the Wright Brothers being tested by the U.S. Navy on San Diego Bay. |
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