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The Whaleback "Christopher Columbus"

Date: 09 19 1892
Description: Captain Alexander McDougall's whaleback passenger steamer "Christopher Columbus" under construction in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company in ...
Photograph

McDougall Whaleback

Date: 1892
Description: Text at bottom reads: Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." Whaleback steamer in the shipyards of the American Steel Barge Company.
Photograph

View of Superior

Date: 1889
Description: View of Superior, with a large group of men posting in a road in the foreground, and various buildings behind them.
Photograph

Lehigh Coal and Iron Company

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of the coke ovens at the Lehigh Coal and Iron Company. A group of men are posing in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

Map of West Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, established dock lines, docks, slips, railroads, streets, selected industrial buildings, sites for manufactories, and...
Map or Atlas

Map of West Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1886
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, sold lots, established dock lines, docks, slips, railroads, industrial buildings, streets, and the St. Louis Bay.
Photograph

McDougall Whaleback

Date: 1893
Description: Men are standing in the foreground on the ice-covered whaleback docked in Superior. Signs on the pilot house at the back of the boat read "Mather" on the l...

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