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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, Minnesota, near Hastings. Engine and car of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway with men posing sitting on the cattle-catcher, l... |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi; The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad bridge across the Vermillion River. A CM&SP train is crossing the bridge. Two men are posin... |
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| Description: | Two men posing on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River at Fountain City. Fountain Brewery is visible at bottom right. |
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| Description: | View across the Mississippi River of Eagle Bluff and Fountain City, with a man in the foreground. The steamer "U.S. Gen. Barnard" is at a landing and a row... |
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| Description: | Two men on an 1,150 foot long swing boom above Alma, which is in the distance on the opposite shoreline. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d... |
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| Description: | Cassville from the bluffs. Bluffs are in the right side of the image, and the view overlooks the town. The church is the dominant structure, and the river ... |
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| Description: | View of Fountain City from the opposite bank of a river. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Falls of St. Anthony, as seen in The Indian Tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, languag... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Maiden's Rock, as viewed from Lake City, Minnesota. This was the legendary lover's leap of Wenonah, the first-born daughter of Dakota... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The view of the Lake Front from across the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Lake Front at Maiden Rock, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View looking toward old Diamond Jo Warehouse, before the bridge was built. Caption reads: "Mississippi River and Prairie du Chien, Wis., from Iowa Side". |
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| Description: | View from river of Fountain City's shoreline with bluffs in the background. Caption reads: "Fountain City, Wis." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of St. Anthony's Fall. Caption on back of stereograph reads, "St. Anthony's Falls, Minneapolis, Minn." There is a bridge in the foreground, a... |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit Northwest through the Great chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River in the year 1820. Ill... |
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| Description: | Man standing on bluff with Mississippi River far below in the background. |
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| Description: | View across water towards two paddle-wheel boats steering logs into a neat, square formation. The boat in the foreground bears the name "Georgie S." Bluffs... |
| Date: | 08 03 1913 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the Mississippi River and bluffs near Alma. A docked paddle boat is near the shoreline. Caption reads: "A Scene from the River, Alma,... |
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