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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The cover from the 1926 schedule lists the ports of call for the Goodrich fleet and features a drawing of the "Alabama". |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Pages 1and 2 of the 1926 schedule gives information on when to get tickets or information. Pictured are the steamline's fleet. The Alabama, City of Benton... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Pages 21-22 from the 1926 schedule has three pictures of the Christopher Columbus and advertises its sailing schedule from the South End Michigan Avenue Br... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover from Goodrich Steamship Lines schedule, with a picture of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel against the Chicago skyline and a beach scene in th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page 4 from the schedule describes the trip from Chicago, Illinois, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the "Christopher Columbus" or "Theodore Roosevelt". Include... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Pages 1 and 2 from the schedule describes the schedule and ports of call for the "Manitou" and the "Puritan". |
| Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
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| Description: | Cover from songbook used on the "S.S. North American." Back cover advertises the sailings of the "North American" and "South American." Includes pic... |
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| Description: | Pages 1-2 of the Songbook for the "S.S. North American" includes an index and the lyrics for 2 songs. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee from Bay View. |
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| Description: | Looking West from Knight Block, with shipping piers and sailing ships on right side, railroad on left, trees in background. Horse-drawn carriages on street... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene on Hispaniola in 1500, when Columbus was forced to return to Spain after a new adminstrator had arrived. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Christopher Columbus' fourth voyage, 1502-1504. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from the Laudonnière Expedition in South Carolina, ca. 1564. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Drake Expedition near Rio de la Plata, Brazil, ca. 1578. |
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