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The Short Cut Route
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Cover of an advertisement and timetable for the Peninsula & Northern Navigation Co. of Milwaukee. The S.S. United States and the S.S. Arizona ran between Milwaukee and Detroit. The cover shows three fashionably dressed passengers on the promenade deck of a ship on the "Short-Cut Route," with a sailboat and a seagull in the background.
1920
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