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| Description: | Two men navigating their canoe through caves at the Wisconsin Dells. |
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| Description: | Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. Caption at bottom: The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
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| Description: | A raftsman at work raising an oar (possibly rowing) with another man standing in the background. A second raft is in the distance. |
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| Description: | View out of Gates Ravine (Glen Eyrie). One man is reclining on the beach at right, and a second man is standing on a sailboat. |
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| Description: | South face of Swallows Nest in the Wisconsin Dells. Ruth, Miriam and Evaline Bennett are in a rowboat near the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Lower Jaws, looking downstream through from Stone Pile. Two children are the at edge of the water, one in a boat, one standing. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a man in a rowboat at Berry's Landing, along the rocks opposite. Caption at bottom: "In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin Ri... |
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| Description: | High Rock; the base with two rowboats. One man is sitting in a rowboat, and one man is standing on rocks and sand holding an oar. |
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| Description: | Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos... |
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| Description: | Ashley Bennett and three friends in a homemade sailboat. This was captioned: "Going to Join the Navy." |
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| Description: | Two men at Swallows Nests, on sitting on the rocks at right, one leaning into the rock face. Two rafts are on the water under a cliff. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass. |
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