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Ferry with Sunday Passengers

Date: 05 06 1894
Description: View on the Monongahela River of a ferry with passengers and horse-drawn carriages. There is a bridge in the background.
Photograph

Ferry and Ferryman

Date: 05 26 1894
Description: A ferryman poses on his docked ferry. Two horses are loaded on the ferry.
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Kennedy's Pack Train

Date: 
Description: A view of Kennedy's Pack Train, about to cross the Chena River. The pack train carried large amounts of gold dust taken from creeks. Caption reads: "Kenned...
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Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry

Date: 1968
Description: View of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, with a couple standing in the foreground. The woman is wearing a leopard print coat, and seagulls wheel in ...
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Ferry at the Battery

Date: 1968
Description: Two passengers stand over a bench and look out of the ferry towards the water. The developed shoreline and a pier with a seagull perched on top can be see...
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Transporting Wagon and Work Horses over Water

Date: 1908
Description: Men, women and children transporting horses and a loaded wagon across a river on a ferry.
Postcard

Brownrich Ferry

Date: 
Description: A view of the Brownrich ferry carrying a horse and wagon.
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Horse-Powered River Ferry

Date: 1907
Description: Horse-powered Mississippi River Ferry. This ferry was operated between Turkey river, Iowa and Cassville, Wisconsin by Alfred Dietrich.
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The Ferry at Pansy

Date: 1907
Description: The travelers, including Diadem, taking the ferry at Pansy.

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