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Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
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Description: | Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | Mill dam and sash factory. "The Northwester Gateway. Excursion to Lake Superior, June 1867. Photographed and Published by J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., Chicago... |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
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Description: | Elevated view from south side of the Chippewa River, with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both sides of the river. A bluff rises on the far side of t... |
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Description: | View downriver from the State Street Bridge showing a large sailing vessel. |
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Description: | View down the river toward the Bay from Walker's Point Bridge, showing several steamboats. |
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Description: | Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge. |
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Description: | View of old sailing boats at a shoreline with elevator A in the background. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S. in the middle of the Mississippi River. The opposite shoreline is in the background. |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Sidney, leaving Lansing, Iowa. Later named Washington. A crane on the front of the steamer is attached to a passeng... |
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Description: | Unidentified paper mill. The holding pond for the paper mill is in the foreground. |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the sidewheel packet, Keokuk, at the Winona, Minnesota levee between 1858 and 1866. A barge and railway cars are in the foreground. |
Date: | 09 19 1892 |
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Description: | Captain Alexander McDougall's whaleback passenger steamer "Christopher Columbus" under construction in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company in ... |
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: | 04 20 1888 |
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Description: | The launching of the screw passenger and freight vessel, "Petoskey," on April 20, 1888 at Burger and Burger Builders, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Thistle" on the river behind a building. Previously named J.H. Crawford. The "Thistle" ran between Oshkosh and Omro, via Butte d... |
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