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Tug Record Pulling a Schooner into Superior
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Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superior. The harbor lighthouse is on the right. Two seagulls fly low over the waves. Another ship is in the far background on the horizon.
1891
Frost, May Conniff
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WHi 97146
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