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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
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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: | 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... |
| Date: | 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of pieces of the schooner Advance laying on the haul of the ship at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 11 27 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the front end of a Kissel car from 1924. It is resting within the steamer Lakeland, which sank in Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 11 25 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a pile of automobiles and other pieces of cargo that sank with the Lakeland. In the foreground an upside down automobile is resti... |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a pile of broken automobiles resting in the sunken Lakeland. |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of metal frames and rubber wheels of automobiles laying in a pile on top of each other within the sunken Lakeland. Part of the upper... |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of two automobile frames that were part of the final cargo of the steamer Lakeland A section of the ship's deck is in the background... |
| Date: | 08 05 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of two archeologists surveying a portion of the Lakeland. The divers are using cameras, with three or four strobes attached by an ar... |
| Date: | 06 22 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater starboard view of the Lakeland. While the ship remains largely intact, it is split in half, with the back end of the ship in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 08 09 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an automobile hanging off of the ruins of the steamer Lakeland. The wheels are still attached to the car, but most of the outward... |
| Date: | 07 2010 |
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| Description: | Underwater overhead view of the steamer Lakeland" sitting on the floor of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 06 09 2005 |
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| Description: | Part of the wrecked bow of the steamer Louisiana sitting on a rocky beach near Washington Harbor. Green trees or shrubs are along the shoreline in t... |
| Date: | 06 09 2005 |
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| Description: | View of part of the bow of the Louisiana. While the stern of the Louisiana is resting under eighteen feet of water, the bow nearly touches th... |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of algae and mussels living on the engine mount of the sunken Louisiana. To the left, an underwater archeologist is surveying the si... |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an underwater archeologist investigating the drift pins of the Louisiana. Algae and mussels are covering most of the wood of the ... |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the Louisiana taken from beneath the deck planks looking up towards the surface of the lake. The surface, lit by the light of the... |
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