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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the coast guard station from the water with multiple sailors lined up near the shore. Caption reads: "Coast Guard Station, Sturgeon Bay, Door Count... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | South entrance to park. The bridge has stone lion sculptures on each of its corners, as well as ornate street lamps. A lighthouse and attached buildings ar... |
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| Description: | A large wave is breaking against the side of the Milwaukee breakwater lighthouse. There is a ship on the left, in the distance beyond the jetty. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across rocks toward the Mount Desert Rock granite lighthouse, established in 1830 and automated in 1977, located thirty miles out to sea on a treeless... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water toward six men standing on a deck with railings on Peck Ledge Lighthouse in Norwalk Harbor, put into operation in 1906. Caption reads: "P... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view from over Moonlight Bay, looking east across Bues Point to Spike Horn Bay and Cana Island. The Cana Island Lighthouse is seen as a ship passes ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Tinted postcard view of the lighthouse at Port Washington. A U.S. flag flies above the roof at the upper left. Caption reads: "Light House, Port Washington... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view of the Reef Lighthouse in Lake Michigan off the shore of Racine. A person is standing to the left of the lighthouse. Caption rea... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wind Point lighthouse on the shore of Lake Michigan. A few neighboring homes are in the foreground. Some of the trees are displaying fall co... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Birch and evergreen trees line the rocky shore of Toft Point, with Cana Island and its lighthouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a small, tower-like building on the side of a road. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a range light built in 1870 to guide ships into the harbor at The Ridges Sanctuary, north of Bailey's Harbor, Door County. The Ridges S... |
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| Description: | View of the lake front at Lakeside Park, with a lighthouse and docked boats. Caption reads: "Light House and Harbor, Lakeside Park, Fond du Lac, Wis." |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A family of five is climbing up the spiral stairs of the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. The young boy in the lead is leaning down and offering a high five. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A Blue Heron is standing on a breakwater in Lake Michigan. The Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse is on the horizon. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ice Scene on the Pier, Sheboygan, Wis." Ice streamers hang from a pier leading to a lighthouse on Lake Michigan's shore. |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Old Light House at Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." Built in 1859. A marshy area is in the foreground, and a long pier leads to the new li... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | South Entrance; in the background is a lighthouse. In the center is a bridge flanked by carved stone lions. A man on a motor car is crossing the bridge. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz, far left, sisters Helen, left, and Alice, sit with Thomas Toft on the rocky shore near the Baileys Harbor lighthouse. A rowb... |
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