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| Description: | Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | The Alexander Mitchell excursion boat with passengers. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A movable billboard aimed at passing motorists along State Highway 20 in Illinois. It reads "Relax in Wisconsin, Where Friends and Nature Meet." Although... |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Front of dinner menu for the "North American" for the season. Gives rates for cruises on the "North American" or "South American" between Chicago, Illinois... |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva... |
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| Description: | Cover from songbook used on the "S.S. North American." Back cover advertises the sailings of the "North American" and "South American." Includes pic... |
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| Description: | Pages 1-2 of the Songbook for the "S.S. North American" includes an index and the lyrics for 2 songs. |
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| Description: | Fat Man's Misery, the narrow defile in Cold Water Canyon. |
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| Description: | Sexton's Eddy, up the river and opposite. There is a steamboat in the distance. |
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| Description: | View from Sexton's Landing of the river and a steamboat. (Steamboat probably Alexander Mitchell). |
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| Description: | Clam Banks; upstream from Arm Chair with steamboat passing, (probably the "New Dell Queen"). |
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| Description: | Wooden walkway leading to covered outdoor platform with tables and benches, and to a building beyond. |
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| Description: | A woman holding a baby sits near a little girl on rocks looking down on the "Dell Queen" steamboat entering the Narrows at Devil's Elbow. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat entering Devil's Elbow at Narrows. There is a building in the background with a sign on the roof, probably the Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | View looking down at the "Dell Queen" along the near shoreline at a point across from Ravine Bridge. |
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| Description: | Unidentified group of tourists posing standing in Cold Water Canyon. There is a man in the background on the left with a camera. |
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| Description: | Unidentified group of tourists going to Dells Landing. There are horse-drawn vehicles beyond. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of passengers posed on steamboat Alexander Mitchell with a bridge and opposite shoreline in the background. One man leans on a h... |
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| Description: | Steamboat Alexander Mitchell with passengers posed standing. Chairs are piled on shore at right. Edge of steamboat Dell Queen at left. Bridge... |
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