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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water of the steamboat "Skater" cruising Lake Superior, with the Bayfield bluffs in the background. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sailboat Lizzie W. at the Mission Dock. Captain Daniel Russell Angus, in the white sleeves, is at the tiller. The boat was named after Elizabeth Woo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of La Pointe, Madeline Island, taken from the Mission Inn. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The house of Captain Angus on the shore of Lake Superior in La Pointe on Madeline Island sometime around 1900. The Angus family came to Madeline Island in ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern. |
| Date: | 08 30 1906 |
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| Description: | A screw passenger excursion vessel or whaleback, the Christopher Columbus, passing through the Broadway Bridge. |
| Date: | 08 29 1977 |
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| Description: | Ferry boat passengers on the deck of the SS City of Midland sun themselves as they cross Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michi... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 09 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three steamships arriving at Fox's Dock, an island in Lake Erie. People are waiting on the docks. A smaller ship is in the dock area as we... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of tourists arriving on steamship. Many passengers are on the ship and the dock. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Unloading coal from a large ship in Lake Superior onto land near Washburn. There is a large conveyor that has lights glowing in the dark sky. A large pile ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the ship "Alex B. Uhrig" in the process of coal unloading on the Reiss Coal Dock No. 2. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of six men sitting on rattan furniture on a covered boat deck. Three men are wearing hats, and one man is smoking a cigar. Off the bow of the boat an ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A young Aldo Leopold is posing smiling, wearing a jacket and bow tie while sitting on a pier. He is vacationing in the Cheneaux Islands. A shoreline with b... |
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