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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of steamboat on the Wisconsin River touring the Wisconsin Dells. The riverbanks are on either side. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water of a steamboat touring Lake Monona in Madison. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two steamboats docked at Lake Monona. Boat in foreground is identified as "Lake Side". A third boat is in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat "Fortuna" docked on the shore of an unidentified lake. A man driving a horse cart is on the shore. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat approaching pier on unidentified lake. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of passengers on the whaleback excursion steamer "Christopher Columbus". |
| Date: | 08 30 1906 |
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| Description: | The excursion steamer "Christopher Columbus" passing through the Broadway Bridge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Caption on glass plate reads, "Steamer, Christoph... |
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| Description: | Steamboat near a cliff on the Wisconsin River, presumably in the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 06 08 1902 |
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| Description: | Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Holton Street viaduct. In the center is the Gallun tannery. There is also a steamboat in the harbor, several lumber y... |
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| Description: | Steamboat "Thomas Mattham" in the Milwaukee harbor being pulled by a tugboat from the north bank near Erie Street. |
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| Description: | View of two steamboats, looking up the Milwaukee River from the north bank, near the foot of N. Milwaukee Street. Both steamboats are of the Goodrich Trans... |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
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| Description: | Steamboat "E.L. Wallace" on the Menominee River looking east from the 16th Street viaduct. Coal yards are on the banks of the harbor. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft on the Upper Mississippi River with shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards "Diamond Jo" steamboat docked on the shoreline of the Mississippi River while goods are being loaded onto the steamboat. |
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| Description: | "Ottumwa Belle" on the Mississippi River. Built in 1895, the sternwheel rafter was used on the Mississippi River until 1920, when the rafter was renamed "I... |
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| Description: | Dock with two steamboats and fishing implements in harbor. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Rock formation, The Sphinx, on Stockton Island of the Apostle Islands. Steamer "Edna" in background on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 01 26 1928 |
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| Description: | A man shovels coal from the bed of an International Model 63 truck onto a conveyor attached to a river boat or steam boat. The truck was used by the "Thos.... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Second to last steamboat on the river taken before 1931, burned in 1931. Taken from Romance Cliff, "The Apollo" is shown coming through with smoke billowin... |
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