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| Description: | Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
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| Description: | Frank O. King paints his character "Uncle Walt" onto a rowboat. The boy in the background on a pier is King's grand-nephew David Witt Nye. |
| 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
| Date: | 09 1928 |
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| Description: | A clam fisher in a boat on the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien. Attached to the long rod are many small hooks similar to grappling hooks. As the bo... |
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| Description: | Bloch on a ship in Mississippi at New Orleans, headed for Baton Rouge. Trip was gratis from Victor Ehr, director of the Baton Rouge chamber of commerce and... |
| Date: | 05 12 1939 |
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| Description: | View of the dock area used by Mirabella Ice Company's wholesale and retail fish store. Men are standing and sitting near the receiving area, and boats are ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men on a boat called Balbo owned by Felice Golino of St. John's Shrimp Company. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit and ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a fishing boat powered by an International PD-40 power unit and owned by Julius Dettloff. A man stands at the boat's wheel. |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | A lifeguard observes swimmers at the beach in Vilas Park. A rowboat used by the lifeguard is on the beach. |
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| Description: | View of a barge transporting railroad cars and an engine across a river. Several men are on the barge, including one on an overhead structure. Text on phot... |
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| Description: | View of a shipyard with tracks for timber wagons. Several men are both on shore, and some men are on boats. One of the boats near the docks reads: "Alberta... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam... |
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| Description: | Men, women and children are posed in clamming boats along shoreline. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in overalls and hardhats stand on a wooden walkway in the East River. The slick water-level walkway leads into a group of pilings and the back... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A view of people in row boats, posing for the camera. A man stands at the diving platform and slide. To the right, in a cordoned-off section, are swimmers.... |
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