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| Description: | Steamer "Saint Paul" of the St. Louis, Dubuque, St. Paul Line. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the sternwheel steamer "E. Rutledge," owned by Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's Rock Island Lumber Company, picking up a raft of logs at Be... |
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| Description: | Two men on an 1,150 foot long swing boom above Alma, which is in the distance on the opposite shoreline. |
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| Description: | Three steamers, the "Robert Dodds," the "Stillwater," and, the "Lady Grace," transporting logs in Beef Slough. |
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| Description: | Alma from across the Mississippi River. Steamer 'U.S. General Barnard" is at a landing. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Title page of a picturesque and descriptive book about Lake Geneva showing two steamboats "Lady Of The Lake" and "Lucius Newberry." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Members of the Kilbourn Broom Brigade on the Alexander Mitchell steamboat in the Dells. Members of the group include: Minnie Smith, Mary Sterlie, Ru... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Steamboat "Skater" and two sailboats at end of the mission dock on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A large group of well-dressed people are standing aboard three small steamboats on Lake Monona. The boat in the foreground is a barge with a sternwheel. Th... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the town and Chippewa river, with a steamboat in the center along the riverbank. A smaller boat is next to the steamboat, with a man standing eithe... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fountain City with the Mississippi River in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from water of the Angle Worm Station at the foot of Carroll Street on Lake Monona. |
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| Description: | "Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther... |
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