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| Description: | Large crowd looking at the damaged Christopher Columbus cruise vessel at dock. Constructed in 1893, the Christopher Columbus was the only pas... |
| Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
| Date: | 06 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Damaged ship on the Milwaukee River. The Christopher Columbus was a popular cruise vessel launched in 1893 and used to traverse the Great Lakes. On ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat, with possibly a sinking ship in the background. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | John Tice and Alexander Grant helping George W. Dawson from a floating piece of debris into a lifeboat after the sinking of the steamer Central America<... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline toward the wreck of the S.S. Atlantus, a concrete hulled ship in the water near a shoreline. In the foreground are three men on ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Group of people stand on pier near the Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906. It was raised and renamed the J.S. There are men on th... |
| Date: | 05 25 1910 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the wreckage of a burned steamer in the Mississippi River near the shoreline. There is a small boat and a barrel nearby. Bluffs are in the ... |
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