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| Description: | The Alexander Mitchell excursion boat with passengers. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, Pere Marquette 18. Flags are flying, including one with her name and the American flag. This was Chicago's largest excursion b... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragists sitting aboard the Mary E. at dockside on the Wolf River. The boat sports a banner reading: "Votes for Women." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
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| Description: | Chief Whirling Thunder, standing at the front of an excursion boat named "Black Hawk," which appears to be near the Wisconsin Dells. Caption reads: "Chief ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A small cruise ship is anchored in front of Northern Transportation Company's office building along the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards the front of the excursion boat "Thistle" loaded with riders on the Fox River. Two people are standing on the right above the pilings near a b... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Fox River Bridge. The building in the foreground has a sign that reads: "Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Freight Station." Caption rea... |
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| Description: | Looking north on the Milwaukee River as the whaleback excursion steamer "Christopher Columbus" is guided by tugboats at about St. Paul Avenue. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of men and women disembarking from the "Yankee Boy" boat on what appears to be a lake pier, with rowboats on the near shoreline, an... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children aboard two boats positioned side by side in an unidentified body of water. The canopied boat in back is the "Intrepid". A man and ... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | A large steel boat rests on a custom-built trailer pulled by a truck. The boat is named "Skori" and is 18 tons in weight; 60 feet long; 12 feet wide and h... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The tour launch Seagull, of the Ryan Boat Line, on the Wisconsin River at the Dells. The Kilbourn bridge is in the background. The captain is the o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of the double-decked excursion boat docked at a pier. The boat has many passengers on board, and other people are standing on the pier. Caption read... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of a group of excursion boats meeting at the pier. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A very large tree, with what appears to be Spanish Moss hanging from it, is growing out of a body of water opposite a shoreline. A sign nailed to the tree ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a wooden dock near a tour boat. The sign on top of the boat advertises "Summer Homesites." |
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| Description: | Composite of sixteen views mainly views of types of boats on the Mississippi River, including steamboats and excursion boats; one view is a bird-eye view o... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Four people, two men and two women, stand on a pier near an excursion boat on Lake Delton. A sign with flags is on top of the boat and reads: "Lake and Riv... |
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