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The Arkansas and Other Boats at the Levee

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Description: The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, next to a barge with other steamboats at the levee in Winona between 1870 and 1880. Railway cars are on a siding in...
Photograph

The Keokuk at the Winona, Minnesota Levee

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view of the sidewheel packet, Keokuk, at the Winona, Minnesota levee between 1858 and 1866. A barge and railway cars are in the foreground.
Photograph

Lumber Rafts in Narrows

Date: 1887
Description: Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Hudson

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye map of Hudson, with insets of Court House and Public School.
Photograph

Narrow Gauge Trestle and Coffer Dam Under Construction

Date: 06 21 1911
Description: Looking east over the Wisconsin River showing the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. Two steam-driven pile drivers on barges with construction worke...
Postcard

Elevated View of Downtown and River

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of downtown. Part of the Milwaukee River is on the left side. Sign for the Germania building is in the lower right, and city hall is in the b...
Photograph

Dredging Barges

Date: 06 04 1894
Description: A fleet of dredges moored to the Kentucky shore.
Photograph

Unloading a Coal Barge

Date: 06 11 1894
Description: Several men unload coal from barges with shovels. A row of buildings is in the background.
Photograph

Docked Ore Boats

Date: 1920
Description: A view of boats laden with ore docked at the harbor. Caption reads: "The Harbor -- Looking Out, Lorain, Ohio."
Photograph

Unloading Ore Boats

Date: 
Description: A view of ships laden with ore unloading at Brown Hoists. Caption reads: "Unloading Ore at Brown Hoists, Lorain, Ohio."
Photograph

Unloading Sugar Cane

Date: 
Description: View of several men unloading a barge of sugar cane with a crane-like tool. A river and dock area are in the background. Caption reads: "Unloading Sugar Ca...
Photograph

Coal Dock

Date: 08 1940
Description: Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,...
Photograph

Delivering Flour

Date: 
Description: Delivering flour to Berlin on barges.
Photograph

U-4 — Oil Field Preparation

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "U-4 — Oil Field Preparation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Danciger Drilling & Refining Co., Baton Rouge, ...
Photograph

Pretoria Bilge

Date: 08 03 2004
Description: Bilge of the wrecked schooner-barge Pretoria on the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Pretoria Bow

Date: 08 03 2004
Description: View of the Bow of the schooner-barge Pretoria at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Drawing

Pretoria Site Plan

Date: 2004
Description: Archaeological diagram of the wreckage of the schooner-barge Pretoria which lies at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Pretoria Fragments

Date: 08 03 2004
Description: View of fragments of the wrecked schooner-barge Pretoria at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Paddleboarding on Archibald Lake

Date: 1924
Description: W.A. Holt and several visitors are paddleboarding or rafting on Archibald Lake. Names from left to right: Catherine Wilson, Nora Klass, W.A. Holt, and Geor...
Photograph

Barge

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline towards a barge alongside a boat. A man is standing on the barge. There are buildings in the background.

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