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Lake Michigan Freighter

Date: 1910
Description: Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern.
Postcard

S.S. Milwaukee Clipper on Lake Michigan

Date: 
Description: The screw passenger and freight vessel, S.S. Milwaukee Clipper, on Lake Michigan. Originally named Juniata.
Map or Atlas

Map of Electric Railway System. T.M.E.R. & L. Co.

Date: 1898
Description: Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ...
Map or Atlas

View of the City of Two Rivers, Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers.
Map or Atlas

Continental View of World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Columbian Exposition pavilions from the vantage point of Lake Michigan. Included is an inset of the Union Passenger Station (now Uni...
Photograph

"City of Charlevoix" Ship

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the "City of Charlevoix" ship coming into harbor. The sign painted on the front of the ship reads: "Northern Michigan Line" and "City of C...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: Map of Wisconsin showing counties and their county seats, towns and cities with over 3,000 inhabitants, the Detroit and Milwaukee Steam Ship Line, and both...
Photograph

Kewaunee Harbor Entrance

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: View across water to ship moored at a dock. Smoke is coming out of the smokestack. Industrial buildings are across the water on the right.
Photograph

North and South Harbor Tracts

Date: 06 14 1961
Description: Aerial view of North and South Harbor Tracts, looking north from South Pier No. 2. There are skyscrapers in the background. there are multiple items of mac...
Photograph

The Skeleton of the Schooner Advance

Date: 2015
Description: Underwater view of algae and mussels covering the wood skeletal frame of the Advance, a schooner built in 1853 and sunk in 1885. Most of the frame i...
Photograph

The Schooner Advance

Date: 2014
Description: Underwater view of pieces of the schooner Advance laying on the haul of the ship at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Kissel Car on the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 11 27 2013
Description: Underwater view of the front end of a Kissel car from 1924. It is resting within the steamer Lakeland, which sank in Lake Michigan.
Photograph

The Cargo of the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 11 25 2013
Description: Underwater view of a pile of automobiles and other pieces of cargo that sank with the Lakeland. In the foreground an upside down automobile is resti...
Photograph

A Cargo of Automobiles on the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 11 26 2013
Description: Underwater view of a pile of broken automobiles resting in the sunken Lakeland.
Photograph

The Site of the Lakeland and its Cargo

Date: 11 26 2013
Description: Underwater view of metal frames and rubber wheels of automobiles laying in a pile on top of each other within the sunken Lakeland. Part of the upper...
Photograph

Automobile Frames Resting on the Bottom of Lake Michigan

Date: 11 26 2013
Description: Underwater view of two automobile frames that were part of the final cargo of the steamer Lakeland A section of the ship's deck is in the background...
Photograph

Surveying the Lakeland

Date: 08 05 2013
Description: Underwater view of two archeologists surveying a portion of the Lakeland. The divers are using cameras, with three or four strobes attached by an ar...
Photograph

The Ruins of the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 06 22 2015
Description: Underwater starboard view of the Lakeland. While the ship remains largely intact, it is split in half, with the back end of the ship in the backgrou...
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Automobile Resting Against the Sunken Lakeland

Date: 08 09 2013
Description: Underwater view of an automobile hanging off of the ruins of the steamer Lakeland. The wheels are still attached to the car, but most of the outward...
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Photo Mosaic of the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 07 2010
Description: Underwater overhead view of the steamer Lakeland" sitting on the floor of Lake Michigan.

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