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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a boy sitting and watching Syl and the Millers in a row boat. There are people in another boat as well as a steamboat on the water. |
| Date: | 07 07 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of Sturgeon Bay. In the far distance are lighthouses, buildings, and barges along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water of boats docked near houses on Jones Island. To the right two flags are strung up flagpoles near a building with a covered porch, perhaps a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of a tugboat pulling a sailboat towards Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 07 1899 |
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| Description: | A boat leaving Milwaukee Harbor between two breakwaters, steaming into Milwaukee Bay and onward out into Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A large steamship, City of Racine, loaded with passengers sails towards Milwaukee Harbor. On the left a tugboat pulls a smaller sailboat out towards... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A large sailing ship docked in Milwaukee Harbor. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Small sailboats in Milwaukee Harbor with buildings on the far shoreline in the background. There is a large sign on a roof that readsin part: "L.J. Petit..... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Four sailboats in Milwaukee Harbor, one of which, The Kim, has Syl on board. In the background are railroad cars and industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of sailboats in Milwaukee Bay. One of the boats, The Kim, has Syl on board. In the background are industrial buildings, one of whi... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Pennyfeather sitting in a small sailboat in Milwaukee Harbor. There are industrial buildings on the far shoreline, and other boats at anchor in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A collage of images including a sailboat, a fish, a man fishing, and a forest scene. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Collage of scenes on the upper Mississippi River, including people canoeing and sailing on the river. |
| 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: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover art for a pamphlet advertising The Apostle Islands and Lake Superior. The upper half of the artwork depicts a sunset view of Lake Superior, and the b... |
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