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Landscape View with River and Riverboat

Date: 1858
Description: Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill.
Drawing

Milwaukee River

Date: 1874
Description: Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ...
Photograph

P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
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Wharf

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Description: A view toward a wharf with horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground, and a steamship in the distance.
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Hong Kong Harbor Scene

Date: 09 1951
Description: The large, ornamental office building of Thomas Cook and Sons on the waterfront in Hong Kong. The firm was one of the oldest and largest travel companies i...
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Plymouth Harbor and Memorial

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Description: View from Cole's Hill of the Plymouth Rock Monument, a granite canopy built in 1920 to house the Plymouth Rock. The inscription reads, "Erected by the Nat...
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Spring Park

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Description: View of a man in a horse-drawn carriage and a another in a boat before Spring Park, a large residence at the top of a hill. Published by Louis Durr & Son...
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Stoughton Wagon Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Stoughton Wagon Company, a manufacturer of wagons, buggies, carriages, and oscillating bob sleighs, from Stoughton, Wisconsin, with an im...
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After the Storm

Date: 1910
Description: A view along the Mississippi River shoreline after a storm. The water is high and there are damaged boats and debris scattered around. In the background me...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 226-234

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Description: As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes
no modern culture could survive
without a touch of France
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 15

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The images are of a variety of excursion boats, sailboats, and horse-dr...
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Peninsula State Park Golf Course

Date: 1969
Description: A woman getting ready to putt on the green at the Peninsula State Park Golf Course. A man stands on the left watching, and parked behind him is a golf cart...

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