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| Date: | 05 29 1894 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people gathered on a wharf with boats in the foreground. |
| Date: | 05 30 1894 |
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| Description: | A houseboat on the Ohio River. A man stands on the deck of the boat on the right. |
| Date: | 06 03 1894 |
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| Description: | View on the Ohio River of a skiff with a small paddle wheel at the stern. There are three men aboard the boat. |
| Date: | 06 04 1894 |
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| Description: | View of a church boat called "Bethel" on the river. |
| Date: | 06 04 1894 |
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| Description: | A fleet of dredges moored to the Kentucky shore. |
| Date: | 06 04 1894 |
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| Description: | Several men ride aboard a club boat, which has a sail. |
| Date: | 06 07 1894 |
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| Description: | A man is seated on the roof of his shanty boat. Another person is at a window. Shoreline with buildings in background. |
| Date: | 06 10 1894 |
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| Description: | View from the river out to the clay bank. There is an oar visible in the foreground. There is a building above the bank in the background. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | John Tice and Alexander Grant helping George W. Dawson from a floating piece of debris into a lifeboat after the sinking of the steamer Central America<... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of the Illinois Building at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition showing a gondola and motor launch on the lagoon near a bridge. A wing of... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the Horticulture Building at the World's Columbian Exposition with the dome of the Illinois Building in the background. There is a mot... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the central basin, Peristyle and Statue of the Republic. There are several boats on the basin. On the right is a large statue of a bu... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the Agriculture Building (right) and Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building (left) from the bank of the South Canal at the World's Colu... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from shoreline of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells as seen from the "Old Dell House." A canoe is visible on the shore on the far r... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Territorial seal of Wisconsin. There is a farmer in the foreground plowing behind horses, a Native American apparently heading west, a river steamboat and ... |
| Date: | 03 21 1881 |
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| Description: | A man rows a small boat through Mouth Rood's Glen. Behind the boat a portable darkroom tent is set up. |
| Date: | 06 11 1899 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of Millers, Syl and others in two boats on the Milwaukee River. In the background is a boat in the middle of the river near a bridge. |
| 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... |
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