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Steel Car Ferry Pere Marquette

Date: 1899
Description: Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha train cars loading onto car ferry Pere Marquette.
Photograph

Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: Young worker operates a large lever on railroad tracks. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers bel...
Photograph

Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries....
Photograph

Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 15 1946
Description: Four workers operating an "ancient" winch. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the ...
Photograph

Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 15 1946
Description: Workers shoveling coal into furnace. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Nation...
Photograph

Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 15 1946
Description: Workers' toilet. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the National Maritime Union (N...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing the Military Defense of Cincinnati, Covington and Newport

Date: 1862
Description: This detailed map shows batteries and rifle pits, railroads, common and military roads, turnpikes, city streets and names, bridges, ferries, rural houses a...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1939
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1944
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin Showing Lines of the Duluth Street Railway Company

Date: 1911
Description: This map of Duluth and Superior shows street car routes, railroads, ferries, some points of interest, and lighthouses. The bottom left of the map reads: "C...
Map or Atlas

Car Ferries on the Great Lakes and Connecting Waterways

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ontario, and Quebe...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. U.S. numbered highways are shown ...
Map or Atlas

Highway Map Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. U.S. numbered highways are shown in red, and information ab...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map

Date: 1936
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any given road (pave...
Map or Atlas

Road Map Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any given road (pave...
Map or Atlas

Auto Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1937
Description: This blue-line map of Wisconsin shows two maps of Wisconsin and the surrounding area, with a railroad map on one side and a road map on the other. The rail...

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