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Filter: Subject of Shorelines
Filter: Creator Name of Gillett, Sherwin
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Car ferry on the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. A ferry has operated at this site since the 1840's. In 1924 the privately owned ferry was replaced by this wo... |
| Date: | 02 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the toll bridge that spans the Wisconsin River. Part of the bridge is covered. Several men stand along the railing. A sign warns "... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a dam constructed of concrete and wood. On the other shoreline are houses and other wood outbuildings. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of wooden bridge. There are homes and barns in the distance. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A view across the river. Trees are along the left shoreline. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of three boats on a shoreline with the covered bridge near Boscobel spanning the Wisconsin River in the distance. The text in the lower left corner re... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of boat landing. A boy rows a boat nearby, and another boy fishes from a boat resting on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A young man fishes on the rocky shore by the Old Mill. The Mill is three-stories high and features a cupola with a wind vane on top. |
| Date: | 01 23 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of bridge during construction over the icy river. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | View from top of new bridge of construction grounds at the bridge site. There are cars carrying building materials on the railroad tracks by the Bridgeport... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers pose at the entrance of the old bridge. There are railroad tracks in the foreground with signs that read, "free bridge," "men working," and "cautio... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from bluff of Cassville with the Mississippi River in the background. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man and a child pose on the dock of a paddle ferry boat named "Dewey." An American flag is affixed to the boat, there is a bell attached on a platform ne... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline looking down at three men posing on a paddle steamer ferry boat carrying an automobile. The boat has the words "Cassville" and "Dewey" ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background. |
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