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| Description: | View from opposite Sexton's Eddy up the Wisconsin River. A steamboat is in the distance, and there are rock formations along the river. Text at right: "Wan... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of a steamboat on the Wisconsin River. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery." |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman is holding an umbrella... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the steamboat the "Dell Queen" at Chapel Gorge. A woman and a young child are sitting on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The river steamer Chippewa drawn up alongside shore on the West Eau Claire Levee. The steamer was built by Captain E.E. Heerman at La Crosse in 1866... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, right, and a companion sit on the retaining wall along the north shore of Lake Monona near the steamboat dock. Two boats and the boathous... |
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| Description: | A view of the city at high tide. Text on the photograph reads, "Nome. For Five Months in the Year Nome Can Be Reached by Steamship. Its Distance From Sea... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a group of people standing on the "Henry Bosse" steamboat, a two-decked sternwheeler. The steamboat is attached to a barge along the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of three steamboats at dock. Men are sitting and standing on the boats. Partial names of two of the boats are visible. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View over water of a three-decked sternwheeler loaded with passengers and flying two large flags. The one at the back is a United States flag. There is a s... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of steamboat. The letters 'J.S.' can be seen at the top of the boat. There are many passengers on board. Two men stand in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | Composite of sixteen views mainly views of types of boats on the Mississippi River, including steamboats and excursion boats; one view is a bird-eye view o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a steamboat and a long raft or barge far out on the Mississippi River. Smoke is streaming from the smokestack of the sternwheeler. |
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| Description: | Evaline Bennett, Ruth Bennett, and Miriam Bennett at the shore. The mother and one daughter are sitting in a rowboat, while the other daughter is standing ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water of an excursion steamboat on the Mississippi River. This image is a part of Frank Feiker's 'Souvenir' series. |
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| Description: | A Frank Feiker 'Souvenir' photograph, labeled 'No 20' in the upper left corner. View from shoreline of a steamboat full of people arriving. There is a larg... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the "Capitol" excursion steamer pulled up to the bank of the Mississippi. The steamer has three or four decks, and elaborately detai... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from right rear of the "General Allen" steamer pushing a barge on the Mississippi River. Smoke is pouring out of the two funnels at the front of the s... |
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