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The "Vernie Mac" at Taylor Falls

Date: 1900
Description: A fire fighter's excursion on the "Vernie Mac" at a landing near Taylor Falls on the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excursion barge is a...
Photograph

Fishing On Breakwater

Date: 1910
Description: Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater.
Photograph

Men Sitting on Pier

Date: 1915
Description: Two men sit on a pier with a beach and several homes in the background.
Postcard

Summer White House on the Brule

Date: 1926
Description: Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Powertrax Brochure

Date: 02 1936
Description: Cover of a International Harvester Powertrax brochure describing "Mobile and Stationary Industrial Power." Includes a photograph of a man hauling cargo wit...
Photograph

The "Lamora"

Date: 1938
Description: Men and sailors on board the large cabin cruiser "Lamora" at dock on Lake Superior.
Photograph

White Pine Lodge View from Lake Owen

Date: 1935
Description: View across water of a man, woman, and two children on the shoreline of Lake Owen at the White Pine Lodge. There is a dock on the far left, and a two-story...
Photograph

Hunting Group on Dock

Date: 1910
Description: Group of twelve men and one boy posing on a dock. A dog lays at the feet of the man in the center. Three of the men hold stringers of dead ducks. On the fa...
Photograph

Korn Brothers

Date: 1910
Description: Three men (Korn brothers), all wearing hats, and two of them in suits, hold a bamboo pole holding stringers of fish between them. They are standing on a do...
Postcard

A Steamship at the Warf at Christiansand

Date: 1908
Description: A postcard depicting a young man or teenager on a dock next to a steam ship.
Photograph

The Pier at Black Point

Date: 1910
Description: View from shoreline of Dr. Otto Schmidt, second from left, standing on the pier at Black Point with other, unidentified, adults and children. A launch is t...
Photograph

The "Lorely"

Date: 1910
Description: Elsa Seipp Madlener, center, poses with her husband Albert, right, and another man, possibly Ed Daily, the engineer of the steam launch "Lorely." A handwri...
Photograph

Men with Dolly on Shipping Dock

Date: 1900
Description: View towards men posing on shipping dock.
Photograph

Men Posing on Dock Unloading Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View of men on a dock with binder. There are town buildings in the background.
Photograph

Shipping Dock Unloading Binder from Ship

Date: 1900
Description: View down dock towards men unloading a binder on the gangway of a ship docked on the left. A woman is standing on the deck of the ship.
Photograph

Uihlein's Point

Date: 1900
Description: View across water towards Frank Greene standing on a boulder seawall at Uihlein's Point on Geneva Lake. In the background on the left is a pier with a cove...
Photograph

Regatta Judges

Date: 1930
Description: Four well-dressed gentlemen stand on a pier. A description of the photograph written by Ernst Schmidt reads: "This picture was undoubtedly taken at the 193...
Photograph

Photographer on Pier

Date: 08 1925
Description: A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle...
Photograph

On Madlener's Dock

Date: 09 01 1931
Description: Albert Madlener, in rear with cap, and Ernst Schmidt, third from right, pose with a group of nine women officials of Chicago's Grant Hospital. In a written...
Postcard

Group on Dock Watching Sailboats

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men and women standing on a dock watching sailboats cast off. The tree covered shoreline is visible in the distance.

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