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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with the title: "The Three Greatest Empires," features an illustration of an Empire Drill in the foreground, and in the background a train tr... |
| Date: | 07 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Ephraim pier in Eagle Harbor. The pier is made of timbers. A dock and boathouse are on the right. Bare masts rise above the boats. The shoreline and trees ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1963 |
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| Description: | Chaudoir Dock in Brussels. The shoreline is on the left and has rocks along its edge. In the background is Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | View from jetty out towards Lake Michigan entrance to Ship Canal. A large tank, streetlamp and buildings are on the left. On the opposite jetty is a lighth... |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | View of the Ship Canal from the Coast Guard station. There are pieces of machinery on the right, and a line of trees on the left. There is snow on the grou... |
| Date: | 07 02 1960 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Manitowoc Shipbuilding floating drydock. Pilings and grass are in the foreground. On the far shoreline are buildings on a hil... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 12 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Pleasure boat ramps, made of timber, on the south side of Racine Harbor. A man is walking in the snow near the ramps. There are piles of material along the... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Jesse Stone walking on board sidewalk, with the Mission Inn along the shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 12 20 1957 |
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| Description: | View across harbor from small boat ramp towards far shoreline. On the far shoreline is industrial machinery, piles of coal, and other buildings. |
| Date: | 12 10 1957 |
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| Description: | View of harbor with pilings in the right foreground. There is a lighthouse on breakwaters in the distance. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Port of Kenosha Transit Warehouse No. 1. There are two ships on the right side, one named "Broom Park." Three men are loading a car onto the ship using a c... |
| Date: | 06 14 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The front of the map reads: "Wisconsin Railroads" and shows railroads, interurban lines, steamship lines sailing from Wisconsin ports, Duluth, Minn., and C... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | This map includes six diagrams of the Great Lakes Region comparing advantages of geographical positions and strategic considerations. Portions of Iowa, Ill... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | This map shows railroads, towns, lights, lights to be established, fog signals, light-vessels, lighted buoys, light-house depots, and light-house reservati... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | This map shows railroads, towns, lights, lights to be established, fog signals, light-vessels, lighted buoys, light-house depots, and light-house reservati... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map includes an explanation that reads: "This chart shows the movement of barley on the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and New York State Barge Cana... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows major cities surrounding the Great Lakes. Portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts,C... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement from coalfields in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and part of Virginia to Lake Erie. Quantities of coal are label... |
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