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| Description: | View of the steamboat "Dubuque" docked in the Mississippi River. Passengers are on the ship decks and smoke is coming out of several nearby smokestacks. Ca... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat "Bald Eagle" unloading on the riverfront. "Bald Eagle" is painted on the top of the ship. Several men are working on and nea... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several steamboats docked at the wharf. Some of the boats are docked near a building bearing advertising reading: "Gardner's Furniture, Ca... |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat "Senator Cordill" in the Mississippi River near Port Gibson. The boat is carrying an excursion party, and some of the passengers are ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a ferry boat near a landing. "Gen. Spencer" is painted on the side of the ferry, which is transporting a cart, two children and a man. Sev... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 31 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the Commisary [sic] depot of Major-General Halleck's army at Hamburg Landing. |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels". |
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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... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a steamboat passing through the canal lock along the Fox River. Caption reads: "Canal Lock, Appleton, Wis." |
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