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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page 8 of the 1930 schedule is a map of the routes of the Goodrich Steamship Lines in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Co. of Chicago, Illinois' screw passenger cruise vessel, "South American." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, Pere Marquette 18. Flags are flying, including one with her name and the American flag. This was Chicago's largest excursion b... |
| Date: | 07 01 1913 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss flying boat in which Jack Vilas made the first flight across Lake Michigan. Vilas, a Chicago businessman, was greeted by a crowd of aerial enth... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Loening Amphibian, one of three such airplanes in which the Kohler Aviation Company provided passenger service from Milwaukee across Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc on the shores of Lake Michigan. A map of the northeastern part of the United States at the top indicates Manitowoc's location ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View down road towards boats docked at the fishing wharf at Ephraim in Door County. The bluff on the horizon is in Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from hill across Eagle Bay with buildings and trees in the foreground. Caption reads: "Across Eagle Bay, Ephraim, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from hill towards downtown Fish Creek, with the buildings and ground covered in snow. There is a road in the foreground leading off to the left. The b... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ferryboat landing, with the boats providing service between Gills Rock and Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | W.W. Cargill Company's grain elevator. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the harbor. On the left is a grain elevator and wood pulp on the wharf. In the center background is the Northern Paper Mills and to the right are ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The Lake Michigan shoreline from Eichelman Park. In the distance is a smokestack and industrial buildings. Caption reads: "Scene on Lake Michigan from Eich... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A 1914 Cadillac sitting near Lake Michigan. Its body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Official highway map of Wisconsin, "the playground of the Midwest," showing the state transportation network prior to World War II. |
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