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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat on Long Lake owned by Lorenzo Newman of Chippewa Falls. It is anchored at Newman Peninsula on Long Lake near a wet boathouse. The boat was operat... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water of the steamboat "Skater" cruising Lake Superior, with the Bayfield bluffs in the background. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people on board the steamboat "Byng I" sometime prior to 1930. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | "Zenya" boat, owned by the Hull family, docked next to a Coast Guard vessel in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Hull family boat "Zenya" near shore with boat "Skater" in the background off shore. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Bow of the sidewheel packet, "Quincy," sunk in 1906. People are standing on temporary pier beside her. Later raised and renamed the "J.S." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., underway taken between 1901 and 1907. Oval picture inscribed Burlington, July 10, 1907. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S. in the middle of the Mississippi River. The opposite shoreline is in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of people gather on Mission dock as the steamboat "Skater" approaches. A boy is walking down the dock carrying a box on his shoulder. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The "Hilton," a boat owned by the John Schroeder Lumber Company; captained by Harry Brower. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, G.W. Hill, docked with its gangplank lowered and no one on deck. Later named Island Maid. There is a bridge in the bac... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., near Trempealeau, taken between 1901 and 1910. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., underway, taken between 1901 and 1910. The magnificent Excursion Str. J.S. burned on the evening of June 25,... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Side view of the sidewheel packet, Quincy, sinking in 1906. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Lat... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Sidewheel packet Quincy, sinking. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Later renamed the J.S. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906 near Trempealeau Mountain, then raised and renamed J.S. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Thistle" on the river behind a building. Previously named J.H. Crawford. The "Thistle" ran between Oshkosh and Omro, via Butte d... |
| Date: | 06 25 1910 |
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| Description: | The wreck of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., after being destroyed by fire. Caption reads: "This wreck of the Str. J.S. Burned June 25, 1910, now ly... |
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