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Traffic Jam at Beef Slough

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Description: Three steamers, the "Robert Dodds," the "Stillwater," and, the "Lady Grace," transporting logs in Beef Slough.
Photograph

Alma from across the Mississippi River

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Description: Alma from across the Mississippi River. Steamer 'U.S. General Barnard" is at a landing.
Photograph

Alma on Mississippi River

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School...
Photograph

Lake Geneva Steamboat

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat.
Photograph

Crowded Pier and Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat.
Photograph

People aboard Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: People seated in a small steamboat tied at a pier on a lake. A flag flies from the bow and there is a two-story frame house on the shore. This photograph m...
Painting

A Steamboat Trip on Fox River in Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Departing from Lake Winnebago, Hölzlhuber boarded the Plymouth, a high, narrow steamboat that was built specially for navigating the narrow and some...
Photograph

Boat on River near Alma

Date: 1908
Description: Caption reads: "Scene of Town and Boat Up River, Alma, Wis." View across river towards Alma on the opposite shoreline, and a river boat on the Mississippi ...
Print

Landscape View with River and Riverboat

Date: 1858
Description: Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill.
Postcard

Lake Geneva

Date: 1905
Description: View from shoreline of a steamboat landing on Lake Geneva. A group of women are gathered on the shore in the foreground. Caption reads: "Steamboat Landing,...
Drawing

Lakefront Lanscape

Date: 08 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of a lake shoreline. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore.
Photograph

Angle Worm Station

Date: 1910
Description: View from water of the Angle Worm Station at the foot of Carroll Street on Lake Monona.
Drawing

Commissary Steamer

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Description: "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee.
Drawing

Riverbank on Mississippi River

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Description: People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu...
Drawing

Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels

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Description: Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels".
Drawing

Hamburg Landing

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Description: Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge.
Drawing

Scene on the Raging Tennessee River

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Description: "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is...
Drawing

Sailing up the Tennessee River

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Description: A sketch of a steamboat coming down the Tennessee River. Both shorelines are visible and there is another boat in the far distance.
Photograph

Monona Lakeside

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Description: Stereograph of a Lake Monona pier with sailboats and a steamboat.
Photograph

Steamboat on Lake Monona

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Description: Steamboat on Lake Monona, with the Wisconsin State Capitol and several churches in the background.

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