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| Date: | 04 17 1866 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Scutanawbequon," owned by Francis (Frank) Barnes, launched on April 17, 1866, with seven people aboard. "She was 50 feet lon... |
| Date: | 08 1889 |
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| Description: | Formal outdoor group portrait of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. They are posing while lined up on the front steps of the Milwaukee Armory building... |
| Date: | 10 16 1865 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the members of Milwaukee Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. Two men are posing behind the group on a platform bearing several U.S. fl... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of President McKinley speaking to a large crowd from a stage decorated with bunting. In the background are buildings and train cars. Caption re... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | I.P. Rumsey is raising the Island Lodge flag. Caption reads: "Up with the flag! I.P. Rumsey." |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated night view of the eight story Germania Building, which is illuminated with a multitude of individual electric light bulbs outlining the windows an... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Three canoes, two of which have a square stern, are tied up outside of the boathouse at Villa Henrietta, George Brumdber's estate on Pine Lake. Inside the ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1889 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south along unpaved Tower Avenue of storefronts, American flags are flying from a number of the commercial buildings. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Group of men gathered outdoors around a rooster. Tents are in the background. Caption reads: "Coxey Army, with Jack London in lower right hand corner." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View towards shoreline with several people on or near a docked boat next to a pier. An African-American woman is sitting under a tree with a white baby on ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Racine, Wisconsin in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's passenger whaleback boat,"Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. Text at bottom right of card... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the McDougall Passenger Whaleback out on the water. Text at bottom right of card reads: "West Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men on a rock formation in the foreground, one man sitting, and one man standing holding a flag. Below them is the Mississippi River a... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of a replica Viking Ship that sailed from Norway to the United States for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Three men are standing on shore in front o... |
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