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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A fire fighter's excursion on the "Vernie Mac" at a landing near Taylor Falls on the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excursion barge is a... |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat entering Devil's Elbow at Narrows. There is a building in the background with a sign on the roof, probably the Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat at landing of Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" passengers disembarking and lining the stairs from landing up to Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat at Larks Hotel landing. Passengers disembarking. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of passengers posed on steamboat Alexander Mitchell with a bridge and opposite shoreline in the background. One man leans on a h... |
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| Description: | Larks Hotel, downstream. A man (George Crandall) and two children (his daughters) are sitting in chairs under trees overlooking the Wisconsin River, with t... |
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| Description: | High water at the Narrows. The Larks Hotel is in the distance. |
| Date: | 07 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Driver in an International delivery truck parked along the waterfront with the Queensboro Bridge in the background. The truck was owned by Joseph Victori &... |
| Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Chicago's Wacker Drive at Clark Street, looking north. Buildings, water towers and railroad boxcars are along the Chicago River waterfront, as well as a Co... |
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| Description: | Panoramic group portrait of workers, who are building the Penisular Power Company, located on the Brule River. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The municipal sand-bottomed swimming pool was a popular spot to cool off in the summer months. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | An A.L. Dahl photograph, one of "Two different side views of the Suspension Bridge," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dam and hydroelectric power house, with a billowing smokestack and a crane in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam and the power plant. A railroad bridge is in the upper left. Three smokestacks are in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Crossing a river on the way to Vermillion Lake in the early 1880's, before the building of any railroads in that part of the country. The teams were part o... |
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