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| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | "Zenya" boat, owned by the Hull family, docked next to a Coast Guard vessel in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mary Baldwin (Duluth), John Neimeyer (Duluth), and the bow of the "Zenya." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from boat of the Coast Guard ship at La Pointe. A shoreline is in the far background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tower Avenue. Caption reads: "Tower Avenue, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women standing on Basswood Island Dock. Bill Baker, Elizabeth Hull, Florence Baker, Dorothy Stickney Ross, Louise Baker, Hamilton N. Ross ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three men power boating on Lake Superior. Two of the men are smoking cigarettes. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, Dave Obey, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, walk along a beach with a park ranger during a tour of the Apostle Islands. ... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View across water of the motor yacht "The Nellewood" at dock at Madeline Island on Lake Superior. A group of passengers sit in the bow area. The "Nellewood... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lakeside view from pier of large two-story house and grounds on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 09 24 1910 |
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| Description: | View of several fisherman's homes on Bear Island, one of the islands that make up the Apostle Islands. An American flag is flying between buildings and a d... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Chequamegon Hotel of Ashland, on Lake Superior, with a three-quarter view of the hotel, as seen from the waterfront, set into a cartouche... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the nine congressional districts, it also shows the counties, cities, railroads, rivers, and lakes in the state. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn three years before Wisconsin entered stateh... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored, cloth mounted map of Wisconsin showing the state’s congressional districts. The map also shows the counties, cities, towns, villages, river... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view down a street (Rittenhouse Avenue) to Lake Superior. The street is lined with businesses and parked cars. Caption reads: "Street Sc... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an orchard during apple blossom season, with Lake Superior in the distance. |
| Date: | 07 2001 |
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| Description: | David Obey poses with Park Ranger Geoffrey Smith on the left and Martin Hanson on the right. They are standing on the beach with water and land in the back... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey and his wife Joan on Martin Hanson's pontoon. He was a good friend of the Obeys and was inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hal... |
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