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Great Northern Grain Elevator

Date: 1997
Description: The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator built by the Great Northern Railroad at Superior about 1900. This contemporary photograph was taken to acc...
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City of Glasgow Under Water

Date: 08 03 2013
Description: View from above the surface of the sunken barge City of Glasgow.
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Fox River Dam

Date: 1905
Description: Trees are reflected in the waters of Buffalo Lake above the dam on the Fox River. There is a man standing on the far side of the dam near a rowboat.
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Waterfall at the Quarry

Date: 1905
Description: A winter view of the dam, left, on the Montello River and ice formations under the shed on the right. The polishing shed of the Montello Granite Company is...
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Boating on the Mill Pond

Date: 1905
Description: View looking down hill towards an unidentified woman who is sitting holding the oars in a skiff near the shoreline of the millpond on the Montello River, n...
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Jessie and Lucy

Date: 1905
Description: Sisters Jessie, left, and Lucy Underwood posing with their bicycles on the Montello River bridge in Montello. A man is standing in the far background on th...
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Fox River Dam

Date: 1905
Description: A view from the south looking over the Fox River dam at Montello. The entrance to the lock is in the background. In the foreground are two men in a boat an...
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The Richter Family

Date: 1905
Description: View across water towards Charles S. Richter rowing a boat on the mill pond, now Montello Lake. With him are his wife, sitting at right, his daughter Ethel...
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Willow Hedge

Date: 1905
Description: An album page with two photographs of a row of willow trees reflected in the mill pond (Montello Lake) behind the residence of E.W. Underwood. In the lower...
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Dr. Lange

Date: 1905
Description: A well-dressed man is standing on the bank of the Montello River just below the dam, which was owned and operated by the Montello Granite Company. On the o...
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Fourth of July

Date: 07 04 1905
Description: View down hill towards shoreline where a crowd fills a barge which has been fitted with benches, an awning, and American flags for an excursion on Buffalo ...
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The Grounded Bow of the Steamer Louisiana

Date: 06 09 2005
Description: Part of the wrecked bow of the steamer Louisiana sitting on a rocky beach near Washington Harbor. Green trees or shrubs are along the shoreline in t...
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Portion of the Louisiana in Shallow Water

Date: 06 09 2005
Description: View of part of the bow of the Louisiana. While the stern of the Louisiana is resting under eighteen feet of water, the bow nearly touches th...

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