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| Description: | Looking north on the Milwaukee River as the whaleback excursion steamer "Christopher Columbus" is guided by tugboats at about St. Paul Avenue. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | From a map published by Angell and Hastreither, the drawing depicts the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel grounds on Lake Monona. The hotel, located in Blooming Grov... |
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| Description: | A tour boat with many passengers is traveling down a river. Two boys are sitting on the roof with suitcases and other baggage, and two men wearing hats are... |
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| Description: | Two boats next to each other on an unidentified body of water. One boat has a roof similar to that of a tour boat. Sitting in the front boat is a family wi... |
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| Description: | A boat named "Intrepid" near a small pier. Three people (two men and a woman), are on the boat, and five people (four men and a boy), are standing on the w... |
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| Description: | Three boats next to a pier. The one on the end of the pier is the Intrepid, the one in the foreground, in which three people are sitting, is the ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of men and women disembarking from the "Yankee Boy" boat on what appears to be a lake pier, with rowboats on the near shoreline, an... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a group of people on a pier with the boat Intrepid. One child is holding a rope connected to the boat, which is being driv... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children aboard two boats positioned side by side in an unidentified body of water. The canopied boat in back is the "Intrepid". A man and ... |
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| Description: | Elevated panoramic view of the Wisconsin River shoreline in the Wisconsin Dells. There is an excursion boat, The Dell Queen, visible in the lower le... |
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| Description: | View toward the front of an excursion boat on the St. Croix River. The rocky shoreline is lined with pine trees. |
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| Description: | Excursion boating on a river with palm trees in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Passengers board the excursion boat "Crescent No. 1" as others look on from bridges. There is a large building in the background on the left, and a long, w... |
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| Description: | View across water toward s large boathouse with a crowd of people in front, and an excursion boat in the foreground on Playland lake. Caption reads: "Roat ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The skipper guides the motor launch Miss Helen on the Wisconsin River in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The tour launch Seagull, of the Ryan Boat Line, on the Wisconsin River at the Dells. The Kilbourn bridge is in the background. The captain is the o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The interior of an enclosed tourist motor launch, possibly the Seagull. Coach type seats line the sides. A glimpse of water and shoreline is visable... |
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| Description: | A view of an excursion boat, the "Dorianna," loaded with people on lake waters heading toward five young boys waiting on a dock. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of a group of excursion boats meeting at the pier. |
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| Description: | An excursion boat, "Shepard of the Hills," carrying many passengers and flying a U.S. flag near the front. |
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