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| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
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| Description: | A raftsman at work raising an oar (possibly rowing) with another man standing in the background. A second raft is in the distance. |
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| Description: | Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman". |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse. |
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| Description: | View out of Gates Ravine (Glen Eyrie). One man is reclining on the beach at right, and a second man is standing on a sailboat. |
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| Description: | South face of Swallows Nest in the Wisconsin Dells. Ruth, Miriam and Evaline Bennett are in a rowboat near the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Lower Jaws, looking downstream through from Stone Pile. Two children are the at edge of the water, one in a boat, one standing. |
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| Description: | Jaws, from Stone Pile. Two children wearing straw hats are sitting on rocks in the foreground. A canoe is pulled up on a sandy bank in the background. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a man in a rowboat at Berry's Landing, along the rocks opposite. Caption at bottom: "In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin Ri... |
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| Description: | View upriver towards dam. Buildings on shoreline at left. Sign on roof reads: "Mirror Lake Boats." |
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| Description: | High Rock; the base with two rowboats. One man is sitting in a rowboat, and one man is standing on rocks and sand holding an oar. |
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| Description: | Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope. |
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| Description: | View up the river from behind Gates Ravine. There is a boat and dark tent at the edge of the river. H.H. Bennett is sitting on rowboat with his wetplate te... |
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| Description: | Group of eight men sitting on shore around a fire, with the river and a boat in the background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four men sitting by and lying in wooden a-frame shaped "bunks" on the Cook Float. Mike Lane, the Cook, is the nearest man just crawling out ... |
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