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Harbor with Steamboats

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Description: View over shoreline toward steamboats moored out in a harbor with buildings lining the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Steamboats at St. Michael, Alaska."
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Steamboats on the Wisconsin River

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Description: Photographic postcard view of two steamboats on the Wisconsin River. Tree-covered bluffs are on the opposite shoreline. The steamboat on the left is the "G...
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Dock in Door County Harbor

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Description: Dock with two steamboats and fishing implements in harbor.
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Bridge of Steamboats

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Description: A fleet of steamboats used by General Joseph Bailey of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry constructing a bridge across the Atchafalaya passage of General Banks' ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Mendota

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Description: Wisconsin Capital from the shores of Lake Mendota, with two steamboats crossing the lake.
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Steamboats Along the Wharf

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Description: View of several steamboats docked at the wharf. The ship on the right is the "Silver Crescent." The ship on the far left bears the logo "St. Louis Quincy &...
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Old Boat Yards

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Description: Old boat yards, with numerous steamboats, and buildings on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Old Boat Yards, La Crosse, Wis."
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Riverside Park

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Description: Lithograph of Riverside Park depicting people, boats, horses and buggies, steamboats in and around body of water.
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Steamboats at Wharf

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Description: Elevated view of several steamboats docked at the wharf. Some of the boats are docked near a building bearing advertising reading: "Gardner's Furniture, Ca...
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Passenger Steamboats

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Description: View from shoreline of two passenger steamboats on the Mississippi river near Clinton. Several children and adults wait on shore. A tugboat is nearby in th...
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The Arkansas and Other Boats at the Levee

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Description: The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, next to a barge with other steamboats at the levee in Winona between 1870 and 1880. Railway cars are on a siding in...
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Steamboats Docked at Fairbanks, Alaska

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Description: View of several steamboats docked. Boats in the foreground are the "Lavelle Young" and "Isabelle" (text "Isabelle" partially obscured). Boat in the backgro...
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Steamboats at a Wharf

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Description: Elevated view of a steamboat docked at a wharf building on the Ohio River. Another steamboat is visible in the distance approaching a bend in the river, an...
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P.H. Best Brewing Company

Date: 1880
Description: View across river toward the malt house. In the background is the south side brewery of the same company. There are two steamboats, one large, one small. ...
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View of Oshkosh Harbor

Date: 1855
Description: Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t...
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"Plowboy" Ferry

Date: 1889
Description: The steamboat "Plowboy" on the water.
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Steamboat "Fashion"

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Description: Steamboat "Fashion" on the water.
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Steamboat "John C. Mann"

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Description: The steamboat "John C. Mann" on drydock.
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Steamboat and Miles Glacier

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Description: Miles Glacier and a steamboat on the Copper River.
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Michigan Transit Corporation Vacation Trips

Date: 1930
Description: Cover from schedule showing passengers relaxing on the deck of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel.

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