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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably early 20th century New York Harbor. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A Curtiss hydroaeroplane tied down prior to a test flight over San Diego Bay. Two unidentified pilots rest on the dock in the shade of its wing. |
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| Description: | Panoramic collotype of Havana, Cuba harbor. Numerous boats are visible. Sky appears to have been masked out before printing. |
| Date: | 06 03 1925 |
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| Description: | International "outer harbor" bus parked near a large boat and several harbor buildings. The bus was built on an International model 52 or model 53 chassis. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Bloch on a ship in Mississippi at New Orleans, headed for Baton Rouge. Trip was gratis from Victor Ehr, director of the Baton Rouge chamber of commerce and... |
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| Description: | View across water toward the shore. People are rowing a boat in the foreground, and people are standing on a rock near the shore. In the background are hou... |
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| Description: | View of part of an old boat frame, presumably from a shipwreck at Point Judith. A group of people are sitting and standing near the frame of the boat on th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a fisherman's shanty along the shoreline surrounded by rocks. At the shoreline is a man and numerous boats pulled ashore. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of Yorks Island Harbor and lobster fishing boats in a cove. Caption reads: "Lobster Fleet at Yorks Island Harbor, Isle au Haut, Me." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a long, curving pier on the bay with large sailboats with sails out on the left side, and smaller boats on the right. |
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| Description: | View across water toward people on a small sailboat on Barnegat Bay, and boathouses and buildings on the far shoreline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of village homes on the shores of the bay with docked fishing boats in the foreground. Caption reads, "Marblehead, Mass from Rockmere Point." |
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| Description: | View from shoreline toward the wreck of the S.S. Atlantus, a concrete hulled ship in the water near a shoreline. In the foreground are three men on ... |
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| Description: | View across water toward the Spring Point Lighthouse, established in 1897 and automated in 1934. There is a small boat near the base of the lighthouse, and... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of people standing on boats lined up along a pier to watch a bi-winged airplane flying over the water. Large buildings ar... |
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| Description: | View of a shipyard with tracks for timber wagons. Several men are both on shore, and some men are on boats. One of the boats near the docks reads: "Alberta... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Vacationers wade at a beach near a row of what appear to be hotel buildings. Groups of people sit near boats onshore and a group of women sits at the end o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of sunbathing adults and children standing and sitting near a blanket, folding chairs, and umbrella set up on a beach. In the background, swimmers ... |
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