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| Description: | Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge. |
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| Description: | Panoramic group portrait of workers, who are building the Penisular Power Company, located on the Brule River. |
| Date: | 09 01 1882 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the special train of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad comprised of 24 freight cars loaded with lumber and other ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Three ships at dock, the "Superior," the "Sandusky," and the "Shawnee," all built in Gibralter, Michigan. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River. |
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| Description: | "Conrad Starke" (possibly a tugboat) cruising on the water near a bridge in an industrial area. The waterway is probably connected to Lake Michigan. Three ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards a dam in Jefferson. Two men are fishing from the shoreline in the foreground. The Woolen Mills are on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The Lindaur Mill Flume. A man is standing in the left foreground. In the distance is the Court House with clocktower. Caption reads: "Lindaur Mill Flume, M... |
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| Description: | Men bringing cans of milk to a building, probably a creamery by a river. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Multiple views of Oslo. Some pictured are the woolen mill and the dam. |
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| Description: | Group of four men and a girl standing on the opposite shoreline by the falls, with probably the Charter Oak Mill on the right on Squaw Creek. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man loading ice from loading dock with an International Model F (or 31) truck. The truck was operated by the Hudson/Willow River Ice Company. There is a la... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building... |
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| Description: | A woman gathers stones at the bottom of a falls near a dam, probably the Hatfield Dam. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing at the front of a freighter, just above the name painted on the side, "James Laughlin". Industrial buildings and water towe... |
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