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Lizzie W. at Mission Dock

Date: 1900
Description: Sailboat Lizzie W. at the Mission Dock. Captain Daniel Russell Angus, in the white sleeves, is at the tiller. The boat was named after Elizabeth Woo...
Photograph

Sailboat "Alpha"

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller.
Drawing

Pic Island from Camp Porphyry

Date: 1850
Description: Pic Island on the north shore of Lake Superior.
Print

Michigan Transit Corporation Vacation Trips

Date: 1930
Description: Cover from schedule showing passengers relaxing on the deck of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel.
Photograph

The Sinking of the Lady Elgin

Date: 1859
Description: A page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper with two sketches and a narrative of the sinking of the sidewheeler passenger, Lady Elgin, i...
Photograph

Sinking of the Lady Elgin

Date: 1859
Description: A page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper detailing the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, in 1860. One sketch is of Edward...
Photograph

Sailboat in Harbor

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Description: Several people are standing aboard a sailboat sailing in the harbor. A small boat is tied to the back of the sailboat.
Photograph

Relaxing on Deck

Date: 08 29 1977
Description: Ferry boat passengers on the deck of the SS City of Midland sun themselves as they cross Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michi...
Photograph

Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
Photograph

Men on Boat

Date: 1935
Description: View of six men sitting on rattan furniture on a covered boat deck. Three men are wearing hats, and one man is smoking a cigar. Off the bow of the boat an ...
Photograph

Captain N.A. Peterson

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Description: Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait of Captain N.A. Peterson, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was master and part owner of the schooner “Selt”...
Photograph

Young Aldo Leopold

Date: 1904
Description: A young Aldo Leopold is posing smiling, wearing a jacket and bow tie while sitting on a pier. He is vacationing in the Cheneaux Islands. A shoreline with b...
Map or Atlas

The United States of North America: with the British and Spanish Territories, According to the Treaty, of 1784

Date: 1785
Description: Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th...
Photograph

Pleasure Boat Ramps

Date: 12 10 1957
Description: Pleasure boat ramps, made of timber, on the south side of Racine Harbor. A man is walking in the snow near the ramps. There are piles of material along the...
Postcard

Group Portrait of People Standing on a Pier

Date: 
Description: View across water towards a group of people, men, woman, and young girls and boys, posing on a pier in front of a building on the shoreline of Sister Bay. ...
Photograph

Jesse Stone

Date: 1913
Description: Jesse Stone walking on board sidewalk, with the Mission Inn along the shoreline in the background.
Photograph

Port of Kenosha Transit Harbor No. 1

Date: 1945
Description: Port of Kenosha Transit Warehouse No. 1. There are two ships on the right side, one named "Broom Park." Three men are loading a car onto the ship using a c...
Photograph

Surveying the Lakeland

Date: 08 05 2013
Description: Underwater view of two archeologists surveying a portion of the Lakeland. The divers are using cameras, with three or four strobes attached by an ar...
Photograph

The Ruins of the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 06 22 2015
Description: Underwater starboard view of the Lakeland. While the ship remains largely intact, it is split in half, with the back end of the ship in the backgrou...
Photograph

The Wreck of the Louisiana

Date: 06 10 2005
Description: Underwater view of algae and mussels living on the engine mount of the sunken Louisiana. To the left, an underwater archeologist is surveying the si...

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