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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 ... |
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| Description: | Three sailboats on Lake Winnebago, U50 (Eskimo), U7 and J7. Crew members are on the boats. The water is choppy and the sky is cloudy. In the background are... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | "Zenya" boat, owned by the Hull family, docked next to a Coast Guard vessel in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from boat of the Coast Guard ship at La Pointe. A shoreline is in the far background. |
| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne... |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Durr diving from the launch, with Ardith Cauble (Gauble?) observing her. |
| Date: | 08 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view up the Milwaukee River from Wisconsin Avenue bridge. A World War I submarine travels down the Milwaukee River. A crowd is gathered at the riv... |
| Date: | 07 02 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, learn bridge building during their training at Fort Leavenworth. |
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| Description: | Deck of the hospital ship USS Samaritan at sea. There are various forms of bedding and mattresses airing out on the railings and on the deck. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
| Date: | 07 30 1899 |
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| Description: | View across pond of Syl at Soldiers Home with aunt Helen standing on a landing near a boat and a flagpole. There is a large group of people gathered around... |
| Date: | 04 27 1951 |
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| Description: | Marine servicemen Al Reque and John Daugherty preparing one of Madison Police Department's two boats for emergency service on the city lakes, with police o... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of shoreline, waterfront buildings, boat-dotted bay and Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. The pink-marble, column-shaped monu... |
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| Description: | A general view of two members of the U.S. Life-saving Crew in a boat, during capsize drill. Camp facilities are on the left riverbank in a wooded area. Cap... |
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| Description: | The USS Constellation, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy, is seen at the United States Naval Training Station, established in ... |
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