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| Date: | 11 13 1914 |
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| Description: | View of river from docks. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 02 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Ship pulling out of dock at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 03 11 1909 |
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| Description: | View across water towards ships in docks at McCormick Works. Lumber is in tall stacks along the wharf. |
| Date: | 02 05 1912 |
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| Description: | View across icy water towards men posing on a ship at a shipping pier at McCormick Works. Factory buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 12 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Ship, with dredge, in a harbor. On the opposite shoreline are stacks of lumber. On the right is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Manitowoc, Wis.? 1906. Passengers disembarking ship in winter." A group of people are sitting and standing at the side of a bridge in the l... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of a replica Viking Ship that sailed from Norway to the United States for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Three men are standing on shore in front o... |
| Date: | 07 15 1911 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of the formally attired launching party about to christen the ship S.S. Harvester on the day she was launched. The woman on the lef... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the McDougall Passenger Whaleback out on the water. Text at bottom right of card reads: "West Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Men are standing in the foreground on the ice-covered whaleback docked in Superior. Signs on the pilot house at the back of the boat read "Mather" on the l... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's passenger whaleback boat,"Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. Text at bottom right of card... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Whaleback steamer under construction in the American Steel Barge Company shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin. Text at bottom of card reads: "McDougall Passenge... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Text at bottom reads: "McDougal [sic] Whaleback. [manufactured at] West Superior, Wis." The steamer is under construction in the American Steel Barge Compa... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithograph image of several boats in a harbor. Most are flying American flags from their masts. One has a flag on which "C. Harrison" is printed. Someone h... |
| Date: | 07 25 19011 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "John Schuchs, The only natural Pine Grove within a 100 Miles of this City. The Grandest and Finest Ravines, at Donges Bay, and Fairy ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a souvenir folder of Superior. Caption on front reads: "Largest Iron Ore and Coal Docks in the World." A ship named "Ashcroft" is depicted l... |
| Date: | 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the port side of the wreck of the schooner Home. |
| Date: | 06 17 1908 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Goodrich Line Str. 'Carolina'." "Carolina of Duluth" is painted on the prow of the steamer. Passengers are lined up along the railing... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point from Tower, Potowatomi State Park, Door County, Wis." Elevated view across Sawyer Harbor towards Stur... |
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