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Immigrants on Boats

Date: 
Description: Medical officers inspecting immigrants.
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Print

Columbus Departs Spain

Date: 1655
Description: Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492.
Print

Columbus Meets with a Cacique in Marien Province, Haiti

Date: 1655
Description: Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492.
Photograph

International Harvester Outer Harbor Bus

Date: 06 03 1925
Description: International "outer harbor" bus parked near a large boat and several harbor buildings. The bus was built on an International model 52 or model 53 chassis.
Photograph

Unloading Marine Supplies

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori...
Photograph

Marines Loading Truck

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a dozer shovel loader to fill a truck parked on a beach. A ship is in the water behind...
Photograph

Marines Unloading Supplies

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to unload supplies and equipment from a ship. Many ships are in the water in the ba...
Photograph

Robert Bloch Aboard a Ship

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Description: Bloch on a ship in Mississippi at New Orleans, headed for Baton Rouge. Trip was gratis from Victor Ehr, director of the Baton Rouge chamber of commerce and...
Poster

The American Way Travel Poster

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph depicting a scene aboard a United States Lines passenger ship, featuring a man and a woman looking toward the ocean's horizon.
Photograph

Standard Oil Co's Pier

Date: 1915
Description: Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials.
Photograph

Loading a U.S. Ship

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Description: Women loading cargo onto a U.S. ship at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands by way of baskets balanced on the tops of their heads.
Photograph

The Wreck of the S.S. Atlantus

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Description: View from shoreline toward the wreck of the S.S. Atlantus, a concrete hulled ship in the water near a shoreline. In the foreground are three men on ...
Photograph

Stranded Ship "Galena"

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Description: Elevated view across beach toward the ship beached in shallow water. There is a crowd of people on the beach in the foreground. Caption reads: "Ship 'Galen...
Photograph

Shipyard with Wagon Tracks

Date: 
Description: View of a shipyard with tracks for timber wagons. Several men are both on shore, and some men are on boats. One of the boats near the docks reads: "Alberta...
Photograph

Crewman Aboard Freighter

Date: 06 1942
Description: A crew member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta looking over the side of the freighter at the Caribbean Sea and the clouds. The man is ...
Print

Norddeutscher Lloyd Supper Menu

Date: 03 21 1901
Description: Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d...
Print

Norddeutscher Lloyd Lunch Menu

Date: 03 23 1901
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with a three-quarter illustration of peop...
Book or Pamphlet

H.M.S. Terror

Date: 1838
Description: Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to...
Print

Red Star Line Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 18 1908
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a framed illustration of a white-bearded man in profile holding a pipe and turning away to look at a sai...

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