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Greetings from Viroqua

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Viroqua, Wis." On reverse: "U.S. Government Dam on the Mississippi River." A cargo barge is about to pass through lock...
Photograph

U-4 — Oil Field Preparation

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "U-4 — Oil Field Preparation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Danciger Drilling & Refining Co., Baton Rouge, ...
Photograph

Pretoria Fragments

Date: 08 03 2004
Description: View of fragments of the wrecked schooner-barge Pretoria at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Drawing

Pretoria Site Plan

Date: 2004
Description: Archaeological diagram of the wreckage of the schooner-barge Pretoria which lies at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Pretoria Bow

Date: 08 03 2004
Description: View of the Bow of the schooner-barge Pretoria at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Pretoria Bilge

Date: 08 03 2004
Description: Bilge of the wrecked schooner-barge Pretoria on the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

City of Glasgow Under Water

Date: 08 03 2013
Description: View from above the surface of the sunken barge City of Glasgow.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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,...
Photograph

U.S. Coast Guard Boat

Date: 2012
Description: United States Coast Guard boat and a dredging barge at the Riverside Park, Levee Dock, a United States port facility on the Mississippi River. A brick walk...
Photograph

General Allen Steamer — Near Riverside Store

Date: 1929
Description: View across water of the General Allen steamer pushing barges down the Mississippi River. Men are on the steamer, and two more men are standing on t...
Photograph

Car Ferry Barges No. 1

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of a barge with four men standing on the deck. The ferry is carrying a large load.
Photograph

U.S. Army Engineer Corps Unloading Lumber

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers from the 310th U.S. Army Engineer Corps unloading lumber from barges.
Photograph

U.S. Hospital and Army Headquarters

Date: 1918
Description: View across snowy ground towards the United States hospital and Army Headquarters for American forces deployed as a part of the Allied Intervention in Nort...
Photograph

"General Allen" Steamer near Riverside Store

Date: 1929
Description: View from right rear of the "General Allen" steamer pushing a barge on the Mississippi River. Smoke is pouring out of the two funnels at the front of the s...
Photograph

Constructing Brush Dam on Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: View across water of men working to construct a brush dam about seven miles north of Cassville. There are two groups of well-dressed people, who appear to ...
Photograph

Steamboat "Henry Bosse" at Dock

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of a group of people standing on the "Henry Bosse" steamboat, a two-decked sternwheeler. The steamboat is attached to a barge along the...
Photograph

Raft Boat and Log Raft

Date: 1910
Description: View from shoreline of a steamboat and a long raft or barge far out on the Mississippi River. Smoke is streaming from the smokestack of the sternwheeler.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

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

Barge of Cranberries

Date: 10 1968
Description: Elevated view of a full barge of cranberries set down along the edge of a cranberry marsh. Also pictured is cranberry harvesting equipment.

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