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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman is holding an umbrella... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Sumpter [sic]. There are several men and a boat on the shoreline in the foreground. Plate 56 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over storefronts and the river. Plate 50 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over storefronts and the river. Plate 49 |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Ashley Bennett ("Cookie") who volunteered his services during the float, and the cook Mike Lane, on the Arpin fleet of lumber rafts. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four raftsmen shipping an oar in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man lying on his stomach on a raft drinking water from the river. A second man is crouching on the edge of the raft, while a third man is ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a raftsman holding a rope as a second man is running towards the edge of the raft. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a very large number of judges standing crowded at the very small end of a pier in Devil's Lake. The occasion is the Grand Regatta held June ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madi... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A yellow mount stereograph of the railroad tracks skirting the edge of Devil's Lake, with several boats tied up alongside. From the stereograph series "The... |
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