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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, docked at the American Steel Barge Company. |
| Date: | 09 19 1892 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander McDougall's whaleback passenger steamer "Christopher Columbus" under construction in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company in ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Text at bottom reads: Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." Whaleback steamer in the shipyards of the American Steel Barge Company. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men repairing a docked, damaged ship. A shoreline is in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 1894 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two people standing on Schuetzan Park pier. A sailboat is docked at the end of the pier and there is a steamboat on the water. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Three ships at dock, the "Superior," the "Sandusky," and the "Shawnee," all built in Gibralter, Michigan. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Members of the Kilbourn Broom Brigade on the Alexander Mitchell steamboat in the Dells. Members of the group include: Minnie Smith, Mary Sterlie, Ru... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a very large number of judges standing crowded at the very small end of a pier in Devil's Lake. The occasion is the Grand Regatta held June ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madi... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | People on a boat dock watch a boat landing as part of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | People on a boat dock watch a boat landing as part of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Locks near De Pere, the only wooden pier on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The rear view of the Ceylon Building, which was from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The Ceylon Building and its pier as seen from Lake Geneva. Originally built for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the building was later purchas... |
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