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Marinette Fisheries

Date: 1912
Description: View across water toward buildings on the right, with men standing on a platform at the shoreline in front of a large building. Three more smaller building...
Photograph

West Shore of Turville Bay

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of the west shore of Turville Bay. Two men sit in a rowboat near the shore surrounded by water lilies. There is a fence in the foreg...
Postcard

Northport Pier in Door County Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view looking out at people standing, and some fishing, on the Northport pier at Death's Door, with the bay in the background.
Postcard

Group Portrait of People Standing on a Pier

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Description: View across water towards a group of people, men, woman, and young girls and boys, posing on a pier in front of a building on the shoreline of Sister Bay. ...
Photograph

Crowd at the Pier, Regatta Day

Date: 1940
Description: View of a crowd gathered along a pier for Regatta Day. Boats are docked alongside the pier on the left.
Photograph

Ice Fishing

Date: 01 2014
Description: View from shoreline on a sunny day of snow-covered, frozen Monona Bay. People in the distance are standing or sitting near ice fishing holes and ice fishin...
Map or Atlas

Canada ou Nouvelle France

Date: 1683
Description: Map of the north east coast of North America showing islands, regions, Native American land, bays, and a few European settlements. The Great Lakes appear i...
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Table Rock from Daisy Fields at Garrett Bay

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Description: Colored postcard view near the extreme northern point of Door County. There is a man standing on the left in a field of flowers looking at the bay. Fishing...
Map or Atlas

Nova Virginiae Tabula

Date: 1667
Description: Map of Virginia depicting the discoveries detailed by John Smith in his exploration of the region. It shows Jamestown, Native American tribes and villages,...
Postcard

Bathing Beach, Ellison Bay

Date: 1919
Description: View towards shoreline with a group of people gathered at a bathing beach. Some people are in the water; other people are standing on the shore fully dress...
Postcard

Greetings from Ephraim

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Description: Elevated view from hill of the bay and Ephraim. A man is walking up the hill on a road with buildings and fences on both sides. Caption reads: "Greetings f...
Postcard

Greetings from Ephraim

Date: 1907
Description: Oval framed view of Ephraim from across the bay. A man is standing in the foreground. Caption reads: "Greetings from Ephraim, Wis."
Postcard

Regatta Day

Date: 1908
Description: View across water from shoreline towards a crowd of people gathered on the main dock. Boats are in the water near the dock, and one person is rowing a boat...
Postcard

Panel of the Brown County Court House

Date: 1851
Description: Elevated view across water towards Fort Howard. In the foreground is a man standing on a pier, and in the water nearby are five men rowing in a boat. Capti...
Photograph

Serbian Prisoners

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Description: Serbian prisoners being loaded onto ships in the bay, Montenegro and Albania.
Photograph

Havana Bay

Date: 03 1913
Description: View across water towards a two-masted sailboat and a launch plying the waters of Havana Bay. Other boats are tied to the wharf in the background, with bui...
Photograph

In St. Thomas

Date: 03 1913
Description: George F. Brumder and his wife, Thekla Wollaeger Brumder, center, are joined by an unidentified woman sitting on a stone wall. All of them are wearing hats...
Print

Building Treasure Island at the Golden Gate

Date: 1939
Description: Advertising proof. Features an illustration of a man driving a truck in the Court of Pacifica. Below is Treasure Island and the hills of Berkeley.
Postcard

Lac Courte Oreilles

Date: 08 18 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Lake Court Oreilles, Reserve Wis." A man in a rowboat looks out over the lake from a tree lined bay.
Postcard

Lovers' Leap

Date: 01 17 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers' Leap, Sturgeon Bay, Wis." Two men are posing while sitting on a block of stone under an overhang on Cabot's Point. The shorel...

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