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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards Fort Howard. In the foreground is a man standing on a pier, and in the water nearby are five men rowing in a boat. Capti... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Broadside advertising the public sale of land at Green Bay, issued by Martin Van Buren. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 08 1871 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Photocopy of the hotel register at the De Pere House De Pere Wis from Friday August 4 to Tuesday August 8 1871. Among names to be noted are... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Chief Elijah Skenandoah, a Turtle Clan chief of the Oneida nation. He moved to Wisconsin from New York in the 1830s, along with a group of Onei... |
| Date: | 1818 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of the layout of the fort, with the Fox River at the top, and a "Cranberry Marsh of 1/2 mile in extent" below right. At the bottom is a rende... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fort Howard, from the top of a grain elevator, when it was being destroyed to make room for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway switchyar... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an unpaved main street, with the Village House across the street in the center background. Wooden buildings and wooden sidewalks are on bo... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde... |
| Location: | Green Bay Yacht Club 100 Bay Beach Rd |
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| Nearby City: | Green Bay, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Green Bay |
| Ship Master: | Captain Thomas Hawley. |
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| Nearby City: | Fort Howard, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Fox River |
| Location: | One mile inside the channel dredged through Grassy Island in Green Bay near the mouth of the Fox River. |
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| Ship Master: | Captain David L. Allen |
| Nearby City: | Green Bay, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Green Bay/Fox River |
| Nearby City: | Green Bay, Brown County |
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| Body of water: | Green Bay/Fox River |
| Ship Master: | Captain Dalton |
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| Nearby City: | Dyckesville, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Green Bay |
| Ship Master: | Captain Joseph Ligot |
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| Nearby City: | Dyckesville, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Lake Michigan |
| Nearby City: | Green Bay, Brown County |
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| Body of water: | Green Bay/Fox River |
| Location: | Sunk while lying at winter quarters at Red River. |
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| Ship Master: | Asahel Hart |
| Nearby City: | Dyckesville, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Green Bay |
| Ship Master: | Capt. Roulette |
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| Nearby City: | DePere, Brown County |
| Body of water: | Fox River |
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