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| Date: | 10 07 1977 |
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| Description: | Man and woman napping on the rocks with their hats down over their eyes as they fish for salmon. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of crowded Bradford beach. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the International Harvester building, as seen from the northwest. Lake Michigan is in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over a frozen cliff on Lake Michigan. |
| 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: | 05 05 1963 |
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| Description: | View across water towards two fishing boats moored at a dock. |
| 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: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Two men walking along the edge of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View from Outer Lake Shore Drive looking south from Foster Avenue. Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline are in the background. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Crescent Beach campsite with cabins and miniature golf course by Lake Michigan. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Memorial to the Moravians who arrived in Eagle Bay in 1853. |
| 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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View down road towards the Fond du Lac lighthouse, built in 1933. There are cumulus clouds in the sky, and pine trees are lining the shore. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ferryboat landing, with the boats providing service between Gills Rock and Washington Island. |
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