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Photograph

Carriage Stuck in the Mud

Date: 1898
Description: Horse-drawn carriage stuck in a rut on a muddy road near the Ohio River in Floyd County, Indiana. One man is holding the horse while another attempts to di...
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1411: Witching Up

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men "witching up."
Painting

Marquette and Joliet Discover the Mississippi River

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Description: A painting depicting Marquette and Joliet in a birch bark canoe with two other men during their excursion on the Mississippi River, which they discovered o...
Photograph

Four Men Seated on Shoreline of Bay

Date: 11 07 1909
Description: Four men seated on rocky shoreline of a lake in front of D.S. Crandall's house. Left to right: E.A. Corneille, D.S. Crandall, Harry E. Dankoler, and Joe Le...
Photograph

Boating in Kashmir

Date: 1951
Description: Boatman on a river in Kashmir. In the background are other boats along a tree-lined shore.
Photograph

Resting at Night on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers resting by a stream in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Two soldiers aresleeping on the sandy bank and two sold...
Photograph

Chambers Island Lighthouse

Date: 1920
Description: View from water of a man with a beard standing on a pier near a small boathouse. In the background is a lighthouse with keeper's house and outbuilding.
Photograph

Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 7-11

Date: 
Description: I had to know the point to which the path was tracked
and when the definition would cease to be my own
Photograph

William Turvill in Rowboat Carrying Farm Produce

Date: 1897
Description: View over water towards William Turvill, rowing a boat loaded with farm produce in wooden crates and baskets. There is a tree-lined shoreline in the backgr...
Photograph

Wet Man

Date: 
Description: Portrait of a man standing on a pier near a lake.
Photograph

Men on a Raft

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Description: Stereograph of six men on a raft on the Wisconsin River. Structures, barrels, tables on sawhorses, ropes and timbers cover the raft. In the background is t...
Photograph

George Holt Paddling a Boat on Archibald Lake

Date: 1898
Description: View across the water towards George Holt paddling a clinker-built duck boat on Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "At sea."
Photograph

Summer Day at Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: A view of the Pine Lake property of George Brumder, with the boathouse at far left. The smoke above the boathouse is from a steam water pump. There is a ho...
Photograph

Pine Lake Bathhouse

Date: 1893
Description: A small bathhouse is standing among trees on the shore of Pine Lake on George Brumder's property. There is ornate fretwork in the gable ends. A sign on the...

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