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Poster

Follow Your Mates. Enlist.

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicting a steam ship being pulled to sea by a tug boat. Smoke is billowing from both boats. Crowds of people are waving from the ship and the dock...
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

Wharf at Fish Creek

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier....
Photograph

Wharf at Marinette

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of fishing tugs moored alongside the wharf at Marinette. Two automobiles are parked in the foreground, just in front of the Bridge Fish Co. b...
Photograph

Bayfield Wharf

Date: 07 1936
Description: Fishing tugs are moored alongside the wharf at Bayfield. The large Bayfield Fish Co. building is identified in large letters on the end of the building. Th...
Photograph

The "Christian Radich"

Date: 1964
Description: View across water towards the tugboat "Indiana" pulling the full-rigged, three-masted Norwegian ship "Christian Radich" into port. The sails and hull of th...
Photograph

Southern Port

Date: 1935
Description: The funnels (smokestacks) of two large steamships are visible over warehouse buildings on a pier of a southern American port. Both ships have nautical flag...
Photograph

Robert Doyle with Two Indigenous Men

Date: 06 1945
Description: Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ...
Photograph

Tug Record Pulling a Schooner into Superior

Date: 1891
Description: Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superio...
Print

Milwaukee River, at Milwaukee

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Description: Engraved view of the Milwaukee River.
Photograph

Tugboat Captain, East River

Date: 1968
Description: A tugboat captain leans on a handrail and squints into the sun on a tug in the East River. Part of the wheelhouse is visible behind him.
Photograph

Steamship Headed towards Milwaukee Harbor

Date: 1898
Description: A large steamship, City of Racine, loaded with passengers sails towards Milwaukee Harbor. On the left a tugboat pulls a smaller sailboat out towards...
Photograph

Tugboat Pulling Sailboat

Date: 1898
Description: View across water of a tugboat pulling a sailboat towards Milwaukee on Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Schooner Leaving Milwaukee Harbor

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Description: Leaving Milwaukee harbor via tugboat, this was the final voyage of the Lucia B. Simpson. Made in 1928, the Simpson was the last of the lake lumber s...
Photograph

McCormick's Reaper Factory

Date: 1867
Description: Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1867. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Rush Street bri...
Photograph

The Azov of Hamilton

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Description: The schooner "Azov of Hamilton" on the River St. Clair. The "Azov of Hamilton" was a 108 foot, 195 ton Canadian schooner built in 1866.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: Man operating a McCormick horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A tugboat is pulling sailing ships on a body of water in the distance. The photograph appear...
Postcard

Whaleback Steamer "Christopher Columbus"

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Description: The screw passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," being towed into the Milwaukee harbor past a breakwater. Milwaukee North Pier Inner Light in ...
Photograph

The Ashland and Passengers

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Description: The tugboat Ashland with several passengers visible on deck.
Photograph

Milwaukee River Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge.

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