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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft pulling down on the end of a hand hewn log, most likely the oar, while a second man stands by and watches. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft holding the end of a hand hewn log, probably an oar, while three men watch in the background. Two of the men are standing ... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on raft holding end of oar at chest level. There is rope coiled in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man standing in rowboat at the edge of a raft. There is a rope leading from the raft to the rowboat. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
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| Description: | Retaining walls at the head gate of the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
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| Description: | View across water toward men standing and working on logs in the middle of the river. Booms help to collect the logs that are shipped down river from the f... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on log booms which cover much of the river's surface. In the background are trees and a bridge. |
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| Description: | View of a log raft secured to a dock or barge on the right. Men are standing on the raft chaining the logs together in one compact load. A man is walking n... |
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| Description: | View across water toward a sawmill amidst palm trees. Lumber is piled high in numerous stacks. Five men are standing on a platform that juts out from a roo... |
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| Description: | Two views, one of a ferry and the other of a chain gang. The ferry operator poses with a man in his carriage on the ferry, with trees in the background. Th... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Boatman on a river in Kashmir. In the background are other boats along a tree-lined shore. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ... |
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