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| Date: | 07 15 1911 |
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| Description: | The S.S. Harvester on the building ways before launching. The ship was built for the Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harveste... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the shipyards with the Badger State cement plant in background. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Four Pawling & Harnischfeger lattice girder bridges trolley hoists used in shipbuilding. There are men on the bridge of the nearest crane and the banner on... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | USS Wisconsin in drydock during construction. Men are working at the base of the ship. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | USS Wisconsin in drydock during construction. A group of men are standing on scaffolding at the base of the ship. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over pier made of pilings towards a floating drydock, now embedded in the ice, near Solombola, Russia. There are tall buildings behind it on the oppos... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Docks at Jones Island with a lone swan swimming. Many large ships and city buildings can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View from pier of Peterson's Boat Works in Sturgeon Bay. |
| Date: | 07 02 1960 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Manitowoc Shipbuilding floating drydock. Pilings and grass are in the foreground. On the far shoreline are buildings on a hil... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th... |
| Date: | 09 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sideways launching of Hull 418, the Detroit Edison at Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Inc. A group of people are gathered at the wharf ... |
| Date: | 03 11 1928 |
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| Description: | Covers have been pulled aside to reveal the new motor boat which sits in front of a large shed in Till Stuyvesant's yard in Lake Geneva. There is a large t... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The five Dionne quintuplet girls, their sister and parents standing at the end of the observation car occupied by the Dionne party. They were in Superior t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of Charles Schwab overseeing men who are working in a shipyard. Text reads: "Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emerg... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the shipyards from across the river. Railroad tracks are in the foreground. Caption reads: "Shipyards at Manitowoc, Wis." |
| Date: | 10 17 1906 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Harbor View - Sheboygan, Wis." A lake freighter, or "laker" is docked at the harbor. |
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