Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background. |
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Description: | Elevated view of dozens of workers standing on planks and using poles to maneuver logs in Beef Slough, near Alma. |
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Description: | Three steamers, the "Robert Dodds," the "Stillwater," and, the "Lady Grace," transporting logs in Beef Slough. |
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Description: | Panoramic view of workers in Beef Slough arranging logs for transport. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Aerial view of the Mississippi River with log rafts. |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft on the Upper Mississippi River with shoreline in the background. |
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Description: | "Ottumwa Belle" on the Mississippi River. Built in 1895, the sternwheel rafter was used on the Mississippi River until 1920, when the rafter was renamed "I... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Drawing of the "Rambo" and "Musser" transporting a log raft on the Mississippi River. |
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Description: | Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
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Description: | View across water towards two paddle-wheel boats steering logs into a neat, square formation. The boat in the foreground bears the name "Georgie S." Bluffs... |
Date: | 12 07 1907 |
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Description: | Elevated photographic postcard view of a paddle steamer towing rafts loaded with logs through an open pontoon bridge on the Mississippi River. Caption read... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A woman and a man are standing on a hill overlooking a large lumber raft (allegedly the last of its kind) traveling down the Mississippi River. There is a ... |
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Description: | Hand-colored view from the shoreline towards a lumber raft. Caption reads: "Steamer Kit Carson Towing Largest Lumber Raft ever taken down the Mississippi R... |
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