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Photograph

Bird's-Eye View Lithograph

Date: 
Description: Bird's-eye view lithograph of Key West with ships and smaller boats in the surrounding waters.
Photograph

Waterfront

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Description: General view of the city's shoreline featuring a ship moored at the main pier.
Print

Racine

Date: 1874
Description: Engraved view of downtown Racine seen from Lake Michigan. Several vessels are entering the harbor, and a pier with a beacon is on the right.
Photograph

Disembarking at Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view looking down gutter of roof towards the British volunteer forces parading in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia right before they disembarked fr...
Drawing

Old Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay in 1900. Sturgeon Bay Bridge spans the bay and several boats are on the water. A lighthouse sits on a small island in the bay...
Photograph

Ship, Bovine and a Man on a Horse

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Description: Composite photograph in the "Tall Tale" style. An enormous bovine stands on the front deck of the Pere Marquette 21, a steamer. On the right, on the...
Map or Atlas

Americæ Nova Tabula

Date: 1630
Description: One of the few maps by Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu depicting the Americas, this map shows regions, settlements, islands, mountains, forests, rivers, an...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto

Date: 1733
Description: This map of North America shows settlements, rivers, lakes, Native American land, trade winds, and numerous topographical features such as forests and moun...
Photograph

New York Harbor

Date: 1930
Description: A ship with "U.S.A." painted on the side is steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

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