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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels. |
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| Description: | Leaving Milwaukee harbor via tugboat, this was the final voyage of the Lucia B. Simpson. Made in 1928, the Simpson was the last of the lake lumber s... |
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| Description: | Print depicting a ship in the harbor. The image has seagulls composited into the sky and white background. Caption reads: "Schooner Under Sail" and "The Al... |
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| Description: | View of schooner and other boats at the wharf. The town can be seen in the distance. Text on photograph reads: "Salt Ship At Wharf." and "The Albertype Co.... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over the Ohio River of a boat landing with a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye illustration of Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | A group of people on a sailboat sailing towards a group of people who are waving from a concrete embankment. |
| 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: | A large sailing ship docked in Milwaukee Harbor. |
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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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| Description: | Elevated view across beach toward the ship beached in shallow water. There is a crowd of people on the beach in the foreground. Caption reads: "Ship 'Galen... |
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| Description: | View of a painting entitled, "The Pilgrims Sighting Land." Men and women look into the distance at the shore while on a ship. Above, a banner reads, "For... |
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| Description: | View of a painting entitled, "Pilgrims and Indian Meeting." The piece features pilgrims arriving on the shore and encountering a Native American. |
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| Description: | Model of the Mayflower in Pilgrim Hall, a museum built in 1824. The flags of England top the sails. Copyright by A.B. Burbank, Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
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| Description: | View of a family sailing in Dering Harbor. The sailboat is carrying a man, woman, and girl. In the background is a small ship. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of replicas of Columbus' ships the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria sailing into dock at Chicago's Jackson Park. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of replicas of the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria docked in a harbor among many boats. |
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| Description: | An illustration of the schooner Rouse Simmons on the water near a shoreline. |
| Date: | 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of algae and mussels covering the wood skeletal frame of the Advance, a schooner built in 1853 and sunk in 1885. Most of the frame i... |
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