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| Description: | Elevated view of the century-old North Head Lighthouse, completed in 1898, built in response to a marked increase in the number of shipwrecks along the Pen... |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Mayor's summer home as seen from across Pine Lake. Children and adults are standing in front of the two-story dwelling. To th... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline toward a lighthouse and homes standing on Rocky Point. There are several boats anchored at the shore and in the water. |
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| Description: | Barnegat Lighthouse was built in 1854 by the U.S. government. Oil-powered lights were originally installed in 1856 but were replaced by electric lights in ... |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard of the fisherman's dock taken from the harbor walkway. White boats are moored on either side of the Ahnapee River as it flows i... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows counties, county seats, cities, towns, proposed and completed railroads, and U.S. Land Offices. Also included in the map are th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin including the eastern portions on Minnesota, Iowa, northern Illinois, and the western most portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing ... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin became the thirtieth state in 1848. Drawn that same year, this map shows township lines, roads, villages, mills, railroads, prairies, swamps, can... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz, far left, sisters Helen, left, and Alice, sit with Thomas Toft on the rocky shore near the Baileys Harbor lighthouse. A rowb... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the Plum Island rear range lighthouse from the end of the pier. The brick house was home to the lighthouse keeper and the first and second assistan... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from water of a man with a beard standing on a pier near a small boathouse. In the background is a lighthouse with keeper's house and outbuilding. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Map of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, shows towns, cities and villages, roads and highways, railroads, schools, lighthouses, place names, town divisions, comm... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group of men on a life saving crew launching a rowboat into Lake Michigan. A long pier with a lighthouse at the end bisects the horizon. Caption reads: "Li... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | This 1896 map of Racine and Kenosha counties, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, roads, rail... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view from over Moonlight Bay, looking east across Bues Point to Spike Horn Bay and Cana Island. The Cana Island Lighthouse is seen as a ship passes ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard showing the lighthouse and fog signal at Devil's Island in the Apostle Islands. Caption reads: "Apostle Islands, Wis. Devil's Island,... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view of a pier and lighthouse at night. The moon shines through clouds, and light shines in two directions from the beacon on top of ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from the shore of Kenosha's North Pier and lighthouse. Waves are breaking on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
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