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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men pose on a boat docked at the Askew Steamboat Landing on Lake Monona off South Carroll Street. The old Governor Harvey residence is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
| Date: | 05 09 1894 |
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| Description: | Reuben Gold Thwaites rowing the skiff the "Pilgrim" on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | People on a boat dock watch a boat landing as part of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | People on a boat dock watch a boat landing as part of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Green Bay harbor and docks. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of a bridge at Chattanooga with a steamship passing nearby. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Some of the Old-Timers in the photograph: Steamers: Petosky (on stocks), Muskegon, Corona, A.D. Hayward, City of St. Joe, Lotus, J.F. Dayan, Grace Willia... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin River shoreline, showing lumber rafts "tied up over Sunday." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Townsend House, a resort hotel. In the foreground there are three people in a rowboat, rowing under a bridge where four other people are... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Two men are in the foreground on a shoreline, one standing in a boat. In the background on the other shoreline are adults and children sitting in the gras... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of side of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
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