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Men Working on Damaged Ship

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of men repairing a docked, damaged ship. A shoreline is in the distance.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map of Sturgeon Bay. County Seat of Door County.
Photograph

Washington Island

Date: 1925
Description: Washington Island, including field and fence, with buildings, automobiles, and a large ship in the distance.
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Caption reads: "Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal."
Postcard

The Canal, Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1913
Description: View of the canal. Caption reads: "The Canal, Stugeon[sic] Bay, Wis."
Print

Horn & Joseph Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Horn's Pier (Door County) office of Horn & Joseph, dealers in general merchandise, including "Wood, Bark, Ties, Telegraph Poles, Posts, &...
Photograph

Family on the Dock

Date: 1908
Description: The photographer's family poses on the dock beside the ship "Sailor Boy" of Sturgeon Bay. Clothilde Hotz holds the hand of Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy); daught...
Photograph

Cana Island

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view from over Moonlight Bay, looking east across Bues Point to Spike Horn Bay and Cana Island. The Cana Island Lighthouse is seen as a ship passes ...
Photograph

Moonlight Bay

Date: 1915
Description: A ship lies grounded in the shallow waters of Mud Bay (part of Moonlight Bay), off Toft Point.
Drawing

Old Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay in 1900. Sturgeon Bay Bridge spans the bay and several boats are on the water. A lighthouse sits on a small island in the bay...
Print

The Scow Schooner Success

Date: 
Description: Archaeological overhead view site plan of the scow schooner Success. Labels indicate various parts of the ship that remain and how much of the wreck...
Photograph

Floating Dock at Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1902
Description: View across water towards a ship docked in a floating harbor at Sturgeon Bay. There is a shoreline in the background.
Photograph

Ships in Door County Harbor

Date: 
Description: Two ships docked in a Door County harbor, possibly at Sturgeon Bay. The ship at left is the Oak Leaf. The ship at right is the L.N. Foster ow...
Postcard

Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point from Tower, Potowatomi State Park, Door County, Wis." Elevated view across Sawyer Harbor towards Stur...
Postcard

Goodrich Line Steamer "Carolina"

Date: 06 17 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Goodrich Line Str. 'Carolina'." "Carolina of Duluth" is painted on the prow of the steamer. Passengers are lined up along the railing...

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