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Photograph

Ojibwa-Pillager Battle Barge

Date: 1898
Description: Cavalry on a barge are going from or returning to Bear Island at the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. There are buildings along the fa...
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Lumber Raft on the Mississippi River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of lumber raft on the Upper Mississippi River with shoreline in the background.
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Shell Buyers with Launch and Barge

Date: 1895
Description: Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Men with Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1965
Description: Two men, in waders, posing with cranberry harvesting equipment and freshly harvested berries. The berries have been loaded onto small barges.
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Beauty Queen with Cranberries

Date: 1965
Description: An unidentified beauty queen wearing a crown, along with three men, pose with harvested cranberries in a cranberry marsh.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 09 1972
Description: Unidentified man working to harvest cranberries. As the berries are picked from the bog they are deposited in a small barge that moves along with the harve...
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Transporting Cranberries

Date: 1978
Description: Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

Date: 
Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
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Raft of Lumber

Date: 1887
Description: A raft of lumber which has been floated down the Wisconsin River to be broken up and sold. Two men are standing on the raft, each near lumber stacked on a ...
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Rough Fish Removal

Date: 1936
Description: Men standing on a barge, left, and others on a wharf, work with a net full of fish from Lake Winnebago as others watch. Two boys at right are walking away...
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Coal Dock

Date: 08 1940
Description: Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,...
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Boats and Barges On the Mississippi

Date: 1943
Description: View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at L...
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Delivering Flour

Date: 
Description: Delivering flour to Berlin on barges.
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Paddleboarding on Archibald Lake

Date: 1924
Description: W.A. Holt and several visitors are paddleboarding or rafting on Archibald Lake. Names from left to right: Catherine Wilson, Nora Klass, W.A. Holt, and Geor...

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