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| Date: | 1780 |
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| Description: | Map of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island. it shows the borders, cities, roads, islands, mountains, lakes and rivers. Navigational hazards along th... |
| Date: | 1733 |
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| Description: | This map of North America shows settlements, rivers, lakes, Native American land, trade winds, and numerous topographical features such as forests and moun... |
| Date: | 1566 |
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| Description: | Map showing the place names, rivers, and mountains of Europe, north-western Africa, the northern half of South America, and North America. Rhumb lines cros... |
| Date: | 1698 |
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| Description: | A sea chart of Hudson's Bay, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic. This map shows rhumb lines extending from various points including two compass roses. Coas... |
| Date: | 1786 |
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| Description: | One half of a four sheet nautical chart, showing the coastlines of the north-west hemisphere. The interior lands are left bare, even of basic features such... |
| Date: | 10 31 1930 |
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| Description: | Alma Seipp Hay, second from right, and her husband, William Sherman Hay, third from left, join Commander C.W. Berndtson and other passengers on the bridge... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay in 1900. Sturgeon Bay Bridge spans the bay and several boats are on the water. A lighthouse sits on a small island in the bay... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superio... |
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| Description: | Postcard view along icy shoreline of the pier and lighthouse on Lake Michigan at Port Washington in winter. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from the shore of Kenosha's North Pier and lighthouse. Waves are breaking on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chart of Lake Michigan noting soundings near shore and across the lake between harbors. Also included are portions of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indian... |
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| Description: | Man wearing microphone and headphones seated before a radar screen. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a lock at Appleton, with views of mills and other structures in the background. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Map of the Chippewa River, from the head of navigation at the city of Chippewa Falls, covering a distance of 16 miles above : showing the established impro... |
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| Description: | Eastern Point Lighthouse at "Mother Ann" and residence on rocky point, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Mother Ann is a rocky cliff at the far south end of Easte... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A map from the Wisconsin identifying the locations airports and other landing facilities in the state. On the opposite side the map includes an alphabetica... |
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| Description: | A patrol officer looks at his compass as he smokes a cigarette. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | A patrol officer from the 14th Infantry, based in Fort Davis, Panama, follows his compass through the jungle. The patrol officer has a small cigarette in o... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A map of the eastern portion of the Apostle Islands group, and a detailed map of Gull Island showing the relief on the island, are included here, along wit... |
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