Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
Date: | |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Sidney," loading passengers at Red Wing. The gangplank is lowered and passengers are on deck and on the landing. Later named Was... |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | Cover from schedule. Shows a drawing of the "Manitou". Later named "Isle Royale". |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "J.S." in the moonlight on the Mississippi River taken in 1906. |
Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Cover of the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company schedule in the Great Lakes Country, depicts a man and a woman watching a ship; either the "N... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Describes the comforts and safety of the two Americas, the screw passenger cruise vessels, the "North American" and "South American". |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Describes the accommodations of the crew passenger cruise vessels, North American and South American. Includes pictures of typical staterooms... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Describes the advantages of a vacation on a cruise of the "North American" and "South American". |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Describes the amenities aboard the "North American" and "South American". |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Drawings of the passenger cabin plans for the screw passenger cruise vessel, North American. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Camp of the Gros Ventres along the upper Missouri River, with white travelers passing by in a boat. |
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Description: | Engraving of George Washington and his troops rowing across an icy Delaware River to attack the British, from the painting by E. Leutze. |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587. |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Scene of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614 showing men at the water's edge being beckoned by mermaids. |
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