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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ... |
| 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: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Republican Campaign Ticket issued in Dane County, Wisconsin. Heading the slate are James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Near the bottom of the ticket... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A male grounds keeper is driving a horse-drawn mower down a path on a park or estate grounds. Another man is leaning against a slender tree. Both men are w... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of side of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | View of a traveling junk boat near the shoreline on the Youghiogheny River. There is a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | View from the Monongahela River of the Edgar W. Thompson steel works. An oar from Thwaites' boat is visible in the foreground. |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | Three boys in a crude boat on the Monongahela River. |
| Date: | 05 07 1894 |
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| Description: | View of a houseboat named "Two Doves" on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 05 08 1894 |
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| Description: | A man transports nitroglycerin in a boat which has a red danger flag at the bow (unseen against the dark background). |
| Date: | 05 10 1894 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen in a boat on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 05 10 1894 |
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| Description: | View from river of three men in a sailboat near the shoreline. Behind them are houseboats up on blocks on the shore of the Ohio River, with other buildings... |
| Date: | 05 12 1894 |
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| Description: | A woman rowing in a boat on the Ohio River. There is another boat on the shoreline behind her. |
| Date: | 05 13 1894 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of merchant boat, with the words Glass City on the side, floating down the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 05 14 1894 |
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| Description: | A man seated on a low boat floats down the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 05 26 1894 |
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| Description: | A rowboat full of passengers floats alongside a ferry, which travels between Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and Rising Sun, Indiana. On the side of the ferry are s... |
| Date: | 05 27 1894 |
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| Description: | Several men pose on the deck of a junk boat called "Ivory Wood No. 3" on the Indian Kentucky River. |
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