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Navy Yard

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Description: Navy Yard viewed from the water level.
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Milwaukee West from Mitchell Block

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Description: Elevated view west from Mitchell Block of warehouses, industrial buildings and a church in the background. In the foreground is a waterway with a schooner ...
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Dome of Exposition Building

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Description: View east of buildings and lake from the dome of the Exposition building. Lumber is stacked on the right.
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Grand Avenue

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Description: View up Grand Avenue from bridge. Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles cross bridge on the left.
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Wisconsin Avenue

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Description: View up Wisconsin Avenue towards a bridge with pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicle traffic. Buildings along a street are in the distance.
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Unloading Coal

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Description: A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr...
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Sailboat in Harbor

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Description: Several people are standing aboard a sailboat sailing in the harbor. A small boat is tied to the back of the sailboat.
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Southeast from Mitchell Bank Block

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Description: Aerial view of buildings with Lake Michigan in the distance.
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Rowboat in Eaton Grotto

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Description: Eaton Grotto, near Narrows. View through grotto walls of rowboat and river beyond. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin S...
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Witches' Gulch

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Description: Elevated view of Witches' Gulch, with a view up the river through trees, from the mouth of Witches' Gulch.
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Rafts at Swallows Nests

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Description: Swallows Nests, south face, with lumber rafts at the base.
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Boy at Witches' Gulch Bracket

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Description: Bracket at the mouth of Witches' Gulch, with boy a posing sitting on the edge.
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Black Hawk's Leap

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Description: Rock overhanging the river at Black Hawk's Leap.
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View out Phantom Chamber

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Description: Witches' Gulch, looking out of Phantom Chamber. Wooden walkway through chamber.
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Kilbourn, Interior of Railroad Bridge

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Description: Interior of railroad bridge, with walkway below. There is a man standing on the left at the railing of the walkway.
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Under the Railroad Bridge at Kilbourn

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Description: View of the river and the underside of a railroad bridge at Kilbourn. There is a building in the background on the right just above the cliffs along the ri...
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Sexton's Eddy

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Description: Sexton's Eddy, up the river and opposite. There is a steamboat in the distance.
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Robinson's Landing

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Description: Robinson's Landing; view up the river, with a man in uniform standing in a canoe. There is a man on the ledge above.
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Steamboat from Sexton's Landing

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Description: View from Sexton's Landing of the river and a steamboat. (Steamboat probably Alexander Mitchell).
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Channel Behind Steamboat Rock

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Description: Channel behind Steamboat Rock, from a steamboat. Man sitting on rock ledge on right.

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