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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A tugboat is pulling sailing ships on a body of water in the distance. The photograph appear... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Main Street Bridge raised to let boats pass through the locks on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Northern Paper Mills' chimney, water towers, buildings, and lumber yard, seen from the Fox River. |
| Date: | 07 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Looking south from Wells Street. A boat travels along the Milwaukee River in the foreground. Landmarks left to right: Manufacturers Home Building, First Na... |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
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| Description: | Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke... |
| Date: | 08 30 1972 |
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| Description: | This unit was purchased by Electro-Motive. Original Falk caption reads, "Photo compliments of Electro-Motive for possible use in bulletin 430. Photo is cop... |
| Date: | 09 20 1945 |
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| Description: | A tugboat in the river is covered in snow and ice. Two men are at the front of the ship on the right wearing hats and heavy coats. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A tugboat passes under the Brooklyn Bridge. Seagulls circle over the water and the developed shoreline is visible in the distance. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A tugboat captain leans on a handrail and squints into the sun on a tug in the East River. Part of the wheelhouse is visible behind him. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the hull of a tugboat in the East River showing rigging, bumper-tires and part of the boats name, "-EN F. McAL-." |
| Date: | 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ... |
| Date: | 10 1962 |
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| Description: | Lake steamer at dock, in fog. To the right is the boom of a crane. In front of the steamer is a tugboat. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from shoreline towards the McCormick Works on the opposite shoreline. There is a boat in the river near a tugboat. There is a light ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The funnels (smokestacks) of two large steamships are visible over warehouse buildings on a pier of a southern American port. Both ships have nautical flag... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Fishing tugs are moored alongside the wharf at Bayfield. The large Bayfield Fish Co. building is identified in large letters on the end of the building. Th... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fishing tugs moored alongside the wharf at Marinette. Two automobiles are parked in the foreground, just in front of the Bridge Fish Co. b... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of seagulls flying over fishing tugs moored at the wharf in Algoma. Small warehouse buildings line the wharf. Fish net drying reels are visib... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier.... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the tugboat "Indiana" pulling the full-rigged, three-masted Norwegian ship "Christian Radich" into port. The sails and hull of th... |
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