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Filter: FORMAT_TYPE of prints, photomechanical
Filter: Subject of shorelines
| 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: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Travelers in a rowing canoe on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Lake Superior shoreline, with terraces leading to the beach. A canoe is on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Riverboats tied at the levee in La Crosse with the Gypsy in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan village with boats on the river in foreground. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Herds of bison and elk on the Upper Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a group of people in a large model launch with an American flag. Caption reads: "On Mendota Lake near University of Wisconsin-Madison Boat House." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Racine, with an inset of Racine College. |
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| Description: | The railroad bridge over the Rock River. |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from across the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Alma, Wis." |
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