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Arrival of "Woodrush"

Date: 1949
Description: View from dock of the U.S. Coast Guard ship "Woodrush" arriving at the La Pointe dock to clear ice. Two trucks are on the dock, one with a piano.
Photograph

Mission Inn

Date: 1920
Description: View across lawn of the Mission Inn on Madeline Island, with a shoreline on the left.
Poster

International Motor Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a truck at a wharf or dock with a large ship in the background.
Photograph

The "Vernie Mac" at Taylor Falls

Date: 1900
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...
Photograph

"Dell Queen" Steamboat and Passengers

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Description: Passengers ng on the "Dell Queen" steamboat. The edge of a second steamboat is on the left.
Photograph

"Dell Queen" Steamboat and Passengers

Date: 
Description: Passengers posing on the "Dell Queen" steamboat.
Photograph

"Dell Queen" at Cold Water Canyon

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Description: "Dell Queen" steamboat and passengers at Cold Water Canyon.
Photograph

"New Dell Queen" Steamboat

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Description: View looking down at the "New Dell Queen" steamboat and passengers.
Photograph

"New Dell Queen" Steamboat

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Description: New "Dell Queen Steamboat" and passengers.
Photograph

H.H. Bennett on "Dell Queen" Steamboat

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Description: H.H. Bennett and group of men posing on bow of "Dell Queen" steamboat. There are two men with violins, one with a harp.
Photograph

Mail Delivery at the Dock

Date: 1921
Description: A woman and her dog meet the mail carrier in his delivery boat at the end of a pier on the west shore of Fox Lake.
Photograph

Fishing Boats at Dock

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: View across water towards two fishing boats moored at a dock.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1883
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior, county seat of Douglas County, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1896
Description: Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ...
Photograph

Russian Women Washing Clothes

Date: 1910
Description: Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy.
Drawing

Lakeside House

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Description: Illustration of the Lakeside House.
Postcard

Main Lodge at Old Mission Inn

Date: 1937
Description: Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965.
Photograph

Cliff House on Devil's Lake

Date: 1874
Description: View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake.
Photograph

Che-ne-qua Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of the Che-ne-qua Hotel on Pine Lake.
Print

Whitefish Bay

Date: 1888
Description: Illustration of Whitefish Bay Resort.

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