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Aerial View of Wisconsin Steel Works

Date: 1970
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background.
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Aerial View of Wisconsin Steel Works

Date: 1970
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works (factory).
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Beach on Lake Michigan

Date: 1939
Description: A beach on Lake Michigan near the Milwaukee Yacht Club. Men, women, and children relax on the beach. In the background many boats are on the water.
Photograph

Wading in Lake Michigan

Date: 1912
Description: Three women and a child are wading at the Lake Park shoreline. The women are identified as Hattie Taylor and friends, and the child as Tannisse Taylor.
Photograph

General View for the Lake

Date: 1893
Description: View of the Columbian Exposition grounds from Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Veblen on Beach

Date: 1920
Description: Thorstein Veblen sitting on a beach, probably at Washington Island, surrounded by driftwood. There is a young child on the beach on the right.
Print

Fishing Station

Date: 
Description: Engraving of a wooden shack on a Lake Michigan beach surrounded by rowboats, a campfire, and a wooded bluff. Two men stand on the beach near the water.
Print

McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved illustration of an elevated view of the "McCormick Reaper & Mower Works." Ships are on Lake Michigan in the background.
Photograph

Jones Island

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Jones Island fishing community in Milwaukee Harbor. Several shacks are visible as well as many fishing nets on net rollers. Ice on the wat...
Map or Atlas

Township No. 3 Range No. 23 East, 4th Mer.

Date: 03 31 1852
Description: Surveyors map showing the Root River and Lake Michigan.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Northwestern Territories

Date: 1820
Description: Map of the Northwestern Territories of the United State showing the track pursued by the Expedition in 1820.
Photograph

Fishing Boat

Date: 1938
Description: Two men stand to the rear of a 44-foot fishing boat marked Frank Braeger. The boat was owned by Julius Detlaff and powered by an International PD-80...
Photograph

Small Island

Date: 08 18 1963
Description: Elevated view of a small, gravelly island in Lake Michigan. Caption on photograph reads, "Green Bay shore with small gravely island. This is very likely th...
Photograph

Lake Michigan Shoreline

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: A detail of the sand dunes along the Lake Michigan shoreline looking out to the lake.
Photograph

Remains of an Old Fishing Track

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: View of the remaining framework of an old fish-unloading track on the Lake Michigan shoreline. A wooded shoreline is beyond a pier in the far background.
Photograph

Lakefront View

Date: 08 23 1964
Description: View of Lake Michigan as seen from the lakefront property owned by Mr. Lloyd Lehman. Mrs. Lehman, and a neighbor, Patti O'Connell, attempt to set a dinner ...
Photograph

Rock Island

Date: 08 20 1964
Description: View over fishing boat of Rock Island, as seen from Jackson Harbor.
Photograph

Grove of Cedar Trees

Date: 08 22 1964
Description: A grove of cedar trees on Schoolhouse Beach. Lake Michigan is visible through the trees and a picnic table is placed near the shoreline.
Photograph

Ferry Boats

Date: 08 24 1964
Description: View from shoreline of two ferry boats in Lake Michigan. These two boats were once used as Mackinac Straits ferry boats and were later used as potato packi...
Photograph

Dilapidated Boat Dock

Date: 08 20 1964
Description: View towards horizon of old boat dock extending into Lake Michigan, as seen from the West Harbor of Washington Island. The dock is surrounded by plants and...

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