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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, "Pere Marquette 18." Man and boy watch from wooden pier in foreground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people along a bridge watching a steamboat in difficulty. |
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| Description: | Sexton's Eddy, up the river and opposite. There is a steamboat in the distance. |
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| Description: | Steamer "Quincy" of the St. Louis, Davenport, & St. Paul Line in the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from water of the Angle Worm Station at the foot of Carroll Street on Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of passengers on the whaleback excursion steamer "Christopher Columbus". |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Map of the Lake Superior region showing the railroad and steamboat connections. |
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| Description: | A large steamboat on the Ohio River steaming past countryside of rolling wooded hills. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Prairie Bird," a small rear-wheel steamship. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a steamboat and several other ships on serene water. There is a shoreline in the far background. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of unidentified steamboat tied up to a dock on the lake. |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Plowboy" ferrying passengers across the lake. The far shoreline is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river. |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat the "Lion" on the Mississippi River, at sunset. |
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| Description: | View of a steamboat down the river from near East Water Street Bridge. |
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| Description: | The screw passenger excursion vessel with large crowd of passengers, "Christopher Columbus," en route between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Superior Shipyards showing steamers "Moran", "Northwest" and "Northland. Caption reads: "Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis." |
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| Description: | Romance Cliff, downstream from foot. There is a steamboat in the distance. |
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