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Drawing

Fort Armstrong

Date: 
Description: Illustration of Fort Armstrong on Rock Island, looking from opposite shoreline. There is a barge and other boats on the Mississippi River in front of the f...
Photograph

Rough Fish Removal

Date: 1936
Description: Men standing on a barge, left, and others on a wharf, work with a net full of fish from Lake Winnebago as others watch. Two boys at right are walking away...
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

Boats and Barges On the Mississippi

Date: 1943
Description: View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at L...
Photograph

Delivering Flour

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

On Lake Skutari (Skodar)

Date: 
Description: Unloading horses from a barge on Lake Skutari in Albania.
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

City of Glasgow Under Water

Date: 08 03 2013
Description: View from above the surface of the sunken barge City of Glasgow.
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.
Photograph

Mississippi Mosaic

Date: 12 1976
Description: Towboat pushing barges through ice on the Mississippi River as winter closes shipping traffic. Elevated view shows broken ice surrounding the barges, creat...
Postcard

Greetings from Viroqua

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Viroqua, Wis." On reverse: "U.S. Government Dam on the Mississippi River." A cargo barge is about to pass through lock...

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