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Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1913
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center."
Photograph

Unloading Lumber

Date: 03 19 1940
Description: View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste...
Photograph

Goodrich Line Passenger Ferries

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Description: Elevated view of two Goodrich Line passenger ferries docked on the west bank of the Milwaukee River, north of the Clybourn Street bridge. The Pabst buildin...
Photograph

"Thomas Mattham" Steamboat in Harbor

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Description: Steamboat "Thomas Mattham" in the Milwaukee harbor being pulled by a tugboat from the north bank near Erie Street.
Photograph

Steamboat on Menominee River

Date: 07 17 1914
Description: Steamboat "E.L. Wallace" on the Menominee River looking east from the 16th Street viaduct. Coal yards are on the banks of the harbor.
Photograph

Menominee River Coal Yards

Date: 07 17 1914
Description: Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee Bay Showing the Site of the Proposed Harbor

Date: 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows marshlands, rivers, creeks, a quarry, and a few roads.
Map or Atlas

Two Rivers Wisconsin Rodgers Street Fishing Area Existing Land Use

Date: 1964
Description: This map of Two Rivers shows the Rodgers street fishing area and land use. The map features a legend on the right of the types of land use. The map also sh...
Map or Atlas

Chart of Harbor at Duluth, Minn. and Superior, Wis.

Date: 1901
Description: This map shows streets, industrial buildings, a portion of Lake Superior and other lakes, bays, and rivers in portions of Duluth and Superior. Relief is sh...
Photograph

Manitowoc Shipyard & Manitowoc Portland Cement Company

Date: 01 08 1958
Description: Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th...
Map or Atlas

Harbor of Manitowoc, Wis. : to Accompany Annual Report, September, 1853, J.D. Webster, Capt. T.E.

Date: 1854
Description: This map shows streets, docks, warehouses, and piers near the harbor. Relief is shown by hachures and depths are shown by soundings and isolines. Lake Mich...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Bituminous Coal on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows major cities surrounding the Great Lakes. Portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts,C...
Photograph

Schooner Hauling Lumber

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a deck of a schooner hauling lumber. Several workmen are loading or unloading the lumber. Industrial buildings, some displaying signs, are...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of the English Empire in America viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, New England, Pennsylvania, New Foundland, New France & c

Date: 1719
Description: Map of the British colonies and territories in North American, depicting cities, Native American land, rivers, mines, forts, trees, and topography east of ...
Photograph

Ship Channel

Date: 1898
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Manitowoc Harbor facing east from Northern Grain Company's Elevator B. In the foreground, Mathews & Keith's pile driver scow is secu...

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