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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 ... |
| Date: | 09 16 1935 |
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| Description: | Dock worker hauling two small trailers of cargo with a McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractor next to a docked ship. The tractor was owned and operated ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boat called "The Imperial" moored along the dock at the McCormick Reaper Works. The boat is loaded with freight. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | International Harvester's McCormick Works on the river with railroad tracks and a cargo dock. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Com... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of ships sailing up the Fox River alongside the coal yards located in Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of east Green Bay harbor with cargo ships, W.W. Cagill Co., and other various industries. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Washington Street and the Fox River and buildings nearby. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from Fox River of chimneys, buildings, and boat. Caption reads: "River Front, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cargo ship passing under the Walnut Street Bridge on the Fox River. |
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| Description: | View of the levee with bales of cotton on the wharf. Caption reads: "On The Levee." |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
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| Description: | Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards. Caption reads: "Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company. |
| Date: | 01 10 1942 |
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| Description: | S.S. Robert M. La Follette splashing into the Industrial Canal at its launch. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha train cars loading onto car ferry Pere Marquette. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of ships moored in the harbor. Sign painted on the ship reads: "Brookline" and the barge next to the ship is loaded with railroad cars. "Atlantic Tran... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a dock, as naval stores are being loaded on a ship. Workers are on board the ship and on the dock, surrounded by cargo. Caption reads: "Loading Nav... |
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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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