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| Date: | 03 1969 |
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| Description: | The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Pierhead Lighthouse silhouetted against the sun shining through the clouds. Snow covers the pier, and ice is floating on the la... |
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| Description: | View toward a man standing in front of the Barcelona Lighthouse, believed to be the oldest existing structure of its kind on the Great Lakes. The lighthous... |
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| Description: | A view of the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse, constructed in 1822 on a hill just west of the Genesee River, covered in vines. This light was built in 1822 (n... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | View from the Second Street bridge over the icy Ahnapee River towards Lake Michigan. A lighthouse is at the end of a jetty in the far background. Boats are... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A log gate and log-framed sign mark the entrance to the Twin River (Rawley) Point lighthouse. The keeper's house is next to the light and has a turret and ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse is near Potawatomi State Park, north of St... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Life Saving Crew Entering Boat, Two Rivers, Wis." A group of men launching a large rowboat into Lake Michigan. In the background is a... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A view of the Prudence Island granite lighthouse, established in 1852 and automated in 1972, more commonly known locally as the Sandy Point Lighthouse. The... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and looking at the door of the boathouse on the beach near the Twin River (Rawley) Point Lighthouse. The boathouse has stone sides and a ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Sturgeon Bay, Door County." On reverse: "Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Door County. North Pierhead Light. Winter shows its pretty face on ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County." On reverse: "Built in 1883, the Sherwood Point Lighthouse marks the entrance into Sturgeon B... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Loening Amphibian, one of three such airplanes in which the Kohler Aviation Company provided passenger service from Milwaukee across Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Kenosha harbor. A group of men fish from a pier in the foreground while several boats float through the harbor. A tug is pulling a large s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Life Saving Station, Racine, Wis." Located at the mouth of the Root River, the Life Saving Station is the white structure. It was add... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the century-old North Head Lighthouse, completed in 1898, built in response to a marked increase in the number of shipwrecks along the Pen... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Large Letter style postcard for Green Bay depicting various scenes in the letters that spell the name of the city. Caption reads: "Greetings from Green Bay... |
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| Description: | Oversized "Colortone" postcard view across water towards the Split Rock Lighthouse from the waterline, looking up the bluffs, with other buildings along th... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Yacht Basin on Lake Michigan. Sheboygan, Wisconsin." View from shore towards a long "L" shaped concrete dock with many boats moored... |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard of the fisherman's dock taken from the harbor walkway. White boats are moored on either side of the Ahnapee River as it flows i... |
| Date: | 03 1913 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man in light-colored uniform, on the far left just behind a column, is standing atop the near side of the Gatun Locks near Colon, Panama. O... |
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