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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Alaska, and to get there by way of the the Northern Pacific Railway. Features the artwork of Sydney Laurence, with a depic... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of a tugboat pulling a sailboat towards Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A large steamship, City of Racine, loaded with passengers sails towards Milwaukee Harbor. On the left a tugboat pulls a smaller sailboat out towards... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Small sailboats in Milwaukee Harbor with buildings on the far shoreline in the background. There is a large sign on a roof that readsin part: "L.J. Petit..... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Four sailboats in Milwaukee Harbor, one of which, The Kim, has Syl on board. In the background are railroad cars and industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of sailboats in Milwaukee Bay. One of the boats, The Kim, has Syl on board. In the background are industrial buildings, one of whi... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Pennyfeather sitting in a small sailboat in Milwaukee Harbor. There are industrial buildings on the far shoreline, and other boats at anchor in the backgro... |
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| Description: | View across shrubs toward a stone historical marker dedicated to Champlain, a Canadian explorer. The marker overlooks the ocean, and a sailboat is visible ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A small wooden dwelling with nearby lobster pots overlooking boats moored and sailing in the bay. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Pigeon Cove Harbor with fishing boats, Sandy Bay and Rockport coastline beyond. |
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| Description: | A view of a boy watching the sea from a pier. Two sailboats are in the water, |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a long, curving pier on the bay with large sailboats with sails out on the left side, and smaller boats on the right. |
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| Description: | Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, standing on the shore of Lake Michigan with a ship in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The bow of a large shipwrecked boat, the E.M. Sawyer, tipped up on a rocky shore. |
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| Description: | A bark, the "Galena," stranded on Clatsop Beach, with three men and two women on the beach in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A view of the wrecked ship beached in shallow water. The ship ran ashore in 1906. Caption reads: "Wreck of Ship 'Peter Iredale' Clatsop Beach, Ore." |
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