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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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of The Apostle Islands Chequamagon Bay & Ashland, and Distances from Ashland. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Ashland, viewed from Lake Superior, with insets of Prentice Park and Fishery. Population 16,000. Increase in Ten Years, 11,000. |
| 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: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
| 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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Bayfield, county seat of Bayfield County. On the lower left side is an inset for Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Sheboygan, with inset of J.J. Volrath Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Superior, county seat of Douglas County, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of points of interest. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ... |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor. |
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