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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of three steamboats at dock. Men are sitting and standing on the boats. Partial names of two of the boats are visible. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View over water of a three-decked sternwheeler loaded with passengers and flying two large flags. The one at the back is a United States flag. There is a s... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the sternwheel paddle boat 'Dubuque of ?" on the Mississippi River near Cassville, Wisconsin. This postcard is marked 'Souvenir' by Frank Feik... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Group of people stand on pier near the Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906. It was raised and renamed the J.S. There are men on th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking down towards shoreline of troops on board a paddle boat on a canal. The boat flies an American flag. Other people stand on the shoreline and o... |
| Date: | 08 24 1882 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page from Kaye's Park House, with a lakeside view of the hotel, a paddlewheel steamboat, people in rowboats or standing by a Kaye's Pa... |
| Date: | 12 07 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated photographic postcard view of a paddle steamer towing rafts loaded with logs through an open pontoon bridge on the Mississippi River. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the steamer Quincy, of the Diamond Jo Line, partially sunken into the Mississippi River and listing to port near the shore... |
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| Description: | View across water towards women on a steam paddle boat on the left, and four sailboats near them on the right. |
| Date: | 09 03 1882 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Alexander Mitchell and the back of a second unidentified steamboat at a dock. Captain Dave and most of the passengers... |
| Date: | 09 04 1882 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Alexander Mitchell at a dock. Captain Dave and most of the passengers on the lower level are posing standing. There i... |
| Date: | 09 04 1882 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards the steamboat Alexander Mitchell moored in the canyon along the shoreline. Captain Dave and passengers are posing... |
| Date: | 07 14 1883 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of the steamboat Alexander Mitchell docked at the edge of the river. Captain Dave and passengers are posing on board. B... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View from ship as a crowd on a pier is saying goodbye to "Espagne" as it is sailing away. Captioned: "The crowd at the pier as the 'Espagne' left for Borde... |
| Date: | 08 01 2015 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three men and a woman, all wearing sunglasses. The two younger men are wearing baseball hats, and the woman is wearing a blue scarf. Behi... |
| Date: | 08 01 2015 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the paddle wheel on the river cruise ship "Spirit of Dubuque." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View across the Mississippi River towards the city of La Crosse. Two riverboats are at the river's edge. Caption reads: "River Front and Harbor, La Crosse,... |
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| Description: | A bathing beach on an island near a bridge, with people in the water and on the beach within an enclosed area. A canoe and rowboat are pulled up on the sho... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the La Crosse Harbor. On the right are two people in a small excursion boat. Along the shoreline is the paddle steamer "St. Paul,... |
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