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Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | In August 1858, Hölzlhuber traveled up the St. Croix River to Stillwater, Minnesota, on the steamship Winona. He noted the upper Mississippi's tribu... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
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: | 1928 |
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Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
Date: | 07 1946 |
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Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Elizabeth Lathrop, Post Mistress, stands with a dog and other people in front of the Post Office. There is a shoreline on the left. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
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Description: | View of the steamboat the "Lion" on the Mississippi River, at sunset. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Belmont Hotel is behind the capitol on the left, and beyond is Lake Mendota. |
Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
Date: | 1842 |
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Description: | This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ... |
Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
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. |
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