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| Description: | The screw ferry, Ann Arbor No. 7, at Frankfort. Later named Viking, then Viking I. Caption reads: "Frankfort, Mich." |
| 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. |
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| Description: | The schooner "Azov of Hamilton" on the River St. Clair. The "Azov of Hamilton" was a 108 foot, 195 ton Canadian schooner built in 1866. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The "Hilton," a boat owned by the John Schroeder Lumber Company; captained by Harry Brower. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Pages 21 and 22 from the 1926 schedule are a map showing the routes of the Goodrich Transit Company, Great Lakes Transit Company, Detroit and Cleveland Lin... |
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| Description: | The screw passenger and freight vessel, America, docked. Sign on boat reads: "United States and Dominion Transportation Company, Booth Line, U.S. Ma... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Co. of Chicago, Illinois' screw passenger cruise vessel, "South American." |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A bow view of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., near Lyons, Iowa (now called Clinton) with an excursion party aboard taken between 1901 and 1910. Brid... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The screw passenger and freight vessel, Manistee. Faint typing on picture describes the loss of the Manistee on November 16, 1883. The ship <... |
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| Description: | Bow side view of the screw bulk freighter, Mataafa, underway. Originally named Pennsylvania. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover from schedule showing passengers relaxing on the deck of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel. |
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| Description: | The Saint Paul, underway on the Mississippi river. Sign on wheel reads St. Louis, Dubuque, St. Paul, Streckfus Steamers. Later named the Senator... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "J.S." in the moonlight on the Mississippi River taken in 1906. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the sternwheel excursion, G.W. Hill, with an engraving of the sternwheel docked at the riverside, and a description of its feature... |
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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, "Pere Marquette 18." Man and boy watch from wooden pier in foreground. |
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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, Pere Marquette 18, entering the harbor. Caption reads: "Pere Marquette Steamer Entering, Milwaukee, Wis." |
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| Description: | A stern side view of the screw passenger and freight vessel, Petoskey, underway. Sign on ship reads Petoskey, Manistee. |
| 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. |
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