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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the north shore of Delavan Lake with a lighthouse in the background. Also known as "Red Top" and "L.P. Sutter's." Caption reads: North Shore, Delav... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Old Light House at Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." Built in 1859. A marshy area is in the foreground, and a long pier leads to the new li... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the main pier and harbor lighthouse from the Lake Michigan shoreline. Caption reads: "Bay and Pier, Racine, Wis." |
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| Description: | Elevated view with the lake on the right, with a number of boats near the shoreline. There is a long winding road through the park, including bridges, a fo... |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard of the fisherman's dock taken from the harbor walkway. White boats are moored on either side of the Ahnapee River as it flows i... |
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| Description: | Three men pose standing on ice around North Pier lighthouse. In the background is the town along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view of a pier and lighthouse at the entrance to Milwaukee's harbor. Two people sail in a small boat to the right of the lighthouse, ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | This early 20th century map of Door County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, landownership and acreages,... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay in 1900. Sturgeon Bay Bridge spans the bay and several boats are on the water. A lighthouse sits on a small island in the bay... |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | View from jetty out towards Lake Michigan entrance to Ship Canal. A large tank, streetlamp and buildings are on the left. On the opposite jetty is a lighth... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | View from the Second Street bridge over the icy Ahnapee River towards Lake Michigan. A lighthouse is at the end of a jetty in the far background. Boats are... |
| Date: | 07 19 1854 |
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| Description: | This map shows the shore in 1844, 1850, and 1852, the length of and proposed additions to the pier. Relief is shown by hachures and depths are shown by sou... |
| Date: | 03 1969 |
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| Description: | The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Pierhead Lighthouse silhouetted against the sun shining through the clouds. Snow covers the pier, and ice is floating on the la... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A Blue Heron is standing on a breakwater in Lake Michigan. The Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse is on the horizon. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ice Scene on the Pier, Sheboygan, Wis." Ice streamers hang from a pier leading to a lighthouse on Lake Michigan's shore. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Yacht Basin on Lake Michigan. Sheboygan, Wisconsin." View from shore towards a long "L" shaped concrete dock with many boats moored... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Life Saving Crew Entering Boat, Two Rivers, Wis." A group of men launching a large rowboat into Lake Michigan. In the background is a... |
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