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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 04 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Boathouses on Lake Monona looking southeast from E. Wilson Street across CNW railroad tracks. View of Wirka Boat Line, E. Wilson Street at S. Hancock Stree... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the International Travelall truck. Features a color photograph of two people in a Travelall pulling two campers and a boat. Includes... |
| Date: | 08 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water. |
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| Description: | Illustration of exterior view of elevators at Fort William. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Newspaper reproduction of an etching of the Milwaukee River. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge. |
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| Description: | A view of the D.G. & M. Depot from the East Water Street Bridge. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of nine rafters wintering at Reed's Landing. At left is Hiram Price, with L.W. Crane beside her. Third is Annie Girdon w... |
| Date: | 08 25 1912 |
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| Description: | A band excursion on the sternwheel excursion, "Thistle." The sternwheel was previously named "J.H. Crawford." |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Belle of La Crosse, at a landing on the Upper Mississippi River. The sidewheel was built in 1868 and burned while in winter qu... |
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| Description: | A bow view of the Sidney. Later named the Washington. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Bow of the sidewheel packet, "Quincy," sunk in 1906. People are standing on temporary pier beside her. Later raised and renamed the "J.S." |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Sidney," loading passengers at Red Wing. The gangplank is lowered and passengers are on deck and on the landing. Later named Was... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of people gather on Mission dock as the steamboat "Skater" approaches. A boy is walking down the dock carrying a box on his shoulder. |
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| Description: | The schooner "Azov of Hamilton" on the River St. Clair. The "Azov of Hamilton" was a 108 foot, 195 ton Canadian schooner built in 1866. |
| Date: | 09 19 1892 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander McDougall's whaleback passenger steamer "Christopher Columbus" under construction in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company in ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Cover from schedule. Shows a drawing of the "Manitou". Later named "Isle Royale". |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "J.S." in the moonlight on the Mississippi River taken in 1906. |
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