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| Description: | View of the fleet owned by Dantzler Lumber Company. Several large sailing vessels are docked, and nearby is a canoe with two passengers. Caption reads: "Lu... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam... |
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| Description: | Workers load bales of cotton onto a ship. The bales are being hoisted up ramps and onto the ship. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "International motor trucks of Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition being loaded into hold of S.S. "African Pilgrim" prior to voyage to M... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "International motor trucks of Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition being loaded into hold of S.S. "African Pilgrim" prior to voyage to M... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | An off-duty member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta freighter reading a newspaper. The man is resting against the wall of the ship and... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A crew member on deck of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta while in the Caribbean. He is wearing a white, sleeveless t-shirt and pants wit... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Two members of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta sitting by the rail on a bench as laundry dries on a clothesline in the foreground. One m... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta eating dinner while in the Caribbean. The man is wearing a button-up shirt and is sitting at... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Off- duty shipmate on United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta. The man is wearing a first mate hat and a white t-shirt. Behind him is a sink with a ... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | 3rd engineer aboard the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta with a telegraph machine. The engineer is shirtless with a towel around his neck. He... |
| Date: | 09 1925 |
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| Description: | Large cargo ship operated by the Benton Transit Company. On the dock near an open shed are many bushels of fruit, including melons and tomatoes (according ... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Milwaukee Dry Dock Company, which operated two docks, with a view of a dock with ships, planks of wood, buildings, and the slogan, "Electri... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait of Captain N.A. Peterson, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was master and part owner of the schooner “Selt”... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | The "Pere Marquette" cargo boat, enroute from Manitowoc to Luddington. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of a cargo ship and Army truck set against that... |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph of the Port of Kenosha and factories, with snow on the ground. There are four ships along the shoreline, and multiple factories on either... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Port of Kenosha Transit Warehouse No. 1. There are two ships on the right side, one named "Broom Park." Three men are loading a car onto the ship using a c... |
| Date: | 06 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of North and South Harbor Tracts, looking north from South Pier No. 2. There are skyscrapers in the background. there are multiple items of mac... |
| Date: | 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of algae and mussels covering the wood skeletal frame of the Advance, a schooner built in 1853 and sunk in 1885. Most of the frame i... |
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