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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sidewheel packet, Keokuk, at the Winona, Minnesota levee between 1858 and 1866. A barge and railway cars are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 19 1892 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander McDougall's whaleback passenger steamer "Christopher Columbus" under construction in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company in ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," entering harbor. Caption reads: "Steamship 'Christopher Columbus' (Whaleback), Entering Harbor at ... |
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| Description: | The whaleback "Christopher Columbus" in the Chicago River. Caption reads: "STR. 'Christopher Columbus'." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Thistle" on the river behind a building. Previously named J.H. Crawford. The "Thistle" ran between Oshkosh and Omro, via Butte d... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Text at bottom reads: Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." Whaleback steamer in the shipyards of the American Steel Barge Company. |
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| Description: | The freighter "Magna" in shipyard's icy waters with three tugboats in the foreground. |
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| Description: | An early whaleback freight steamship on the Great Lakes. The captain was William M. Bates. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Two men deliver milk in cans to a creamery from the back of a milk truck. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche... |
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| Description: | Two men using a crane to unload wagon box on the waterfront. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | International Model E highwheeler truck adorned with American flags, advertising banners, and a statue of a sprite named "Prospy." "Prospy" was a little ma... |
| Date: | 10 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Interior of a service shop in a McCormick-Deering dealership with a disassembled Farmall Regular tractor and a wooden tool rack. The tractor was originally... |
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| Description: | Grain elevator with large Schlitz sign. There are railroad cars on a railroad track in the foreground. |
| Date: | 01 13 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men at work on an engine block inside the service shop of a McCormick-Deering dealership owned by C. Scheler and Son. In background are In... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably early 20th century New York Harbor. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | International Titan 45 tractor pulling a 42,000 pound load on an attached wagon car in front of a warehouse owned by Merchants Transfer and Storage. The Ti... |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen use a McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor to attach railroad cars carrying Miller High Life beer. |
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