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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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sailboat Lizzie W. at the Mission Dock. Captain Daniel Russell Angus, in the white sleeves, is at the tiller. The boat was named after Elizabeth Woo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Pic Island on the north shore of Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | A page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper detailing the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, in 1860. One sketch is of Edward... |
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| Description: | Several people are standing aboard a sailboat sailing in the harbor. A small boat is tied to the back of the sailboat. |
| Date: | 08 29 1977 |
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| Description: | Ferry boat passengers on the deck of the SS City of Midland sun themselves as they cross Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michi... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 09 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of boats docked at the fishing wharf. People are fishing from the pier, and a group of people are in a rowboat near a ferry. There are ... |
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| Description: | View across water towards a large ferry docked at the fishing wharf. A large group of people are standing on the pier, and passengers are standing at the r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of tourists arriving on steamship. Many passengers are on the ship and the dock. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of six men sitting on rattan furniture on a covered boat deck. Three men are wearing hats, and one man is smoking a cigar. Off the bow of the boat an ... |
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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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A young Aldo Leopold is posing smiling, wearing a jacket and bow tie while sitting on a pier. He is vacationing in the Cheneaux Islands. A shoreline with b... |
| Date: | 1785 |
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| Description: | Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th... |
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| Description: | Three women stand on the shore in front of the steamer Barker at Devils Island natural dock. |
| Date: | 12 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Pleasure boat ramps, made of timber, on the south side of Racine Harbor. A man is walking in the snow near the ramps. There are piles of material along the... |
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