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Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 07 07 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water of Sturgeon Bay. In the far distance are lighthouses, buildings, and barges along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A chain and posts border the yard of the lighthouse, which is attached to a two-story house. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the Columbian Exposition grounds from Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Long view of the Minnesota Point lighthouse, built at the entrance to Superior Harbor. It is allegedly the first lighthouse at the head of Lake Superior. |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Second Long Tail Point lighthouse, built in 1859. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Long Tail lighthouse. Built in 1847-1848 and abandoned in 1859 when a new frame lighthouse was built nearby. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Territorial seal of Wisconsin. There is a farmer in the foreground plowing behind horses, a Native American apparently heading west, a river steamboat and ... |
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