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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. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
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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... |
| 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: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | View from the second story of the Salesianum, the residence of Dr. Salzmann. The view includes Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee shoreline, and some of the nume... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A howling dog tied to a post, with an empty food dish in front of him. Water is in the background with a sailing ship, probably from the blockade. Text abo... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Union sailor and King Neptune stand inside a sea shell that is floating on the ocean. Between them appears a decorative circle with the Union Armada in i... |
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