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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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Passenger Steamboats on Milwaukee River

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Description: View of two steamboats, looking up the Milwaukee River from the north bank, near the foot of N. Milwaukee Street. Both steamboats are of the Goodrich Trans...
Postcard

Steamboats in La Crosse Harbor

Date: 1903
Description: Several steamboats in the harbor, with J.J. Hogan Wholesale Grocery store and other buildings along the shoreline. Caption reads: "Steamboats in La Crosse ...
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Dock in Door County Harbor

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Description: Dock with two steamboats and fishing implements in harbor.
Postcard

Levee with Steamboats

Date: 1904
Description: Levee in harbor, with boats, horse-drawn carriages, and steamboats. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis."
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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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Morning Haze

Date: 09 1955
Description: Two steamboats on misty river.
Postcard

Steamboats on the Mississippi River at Diamond Bluff

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view across water towards three steamboats on the shoreline of the Mississippi River.
Postcard

Steamboats in Harbor

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Description: Harbor full of steamboats. The shoreline is bustling with people walking amidst the buildings, piers and bridges. Caption reads: "La Crosse Harbor, La Cros...
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Steamboats "Alexander Mitchell" and "Eolah"

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Description: Steamboats Alexander Mitchell and Eolah alongside rocks, with passengers posed on the Alexander Mitchell.
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Steamboats at Dock

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of three steamboats at dock. Men are sitting and standing on the boats. Partial names of two of the boats are visible.
Postcard

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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Lakefront Lanscape

Date: 08 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of a lake shoreline. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore.
Print

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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Beef Slough Near Alma

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Description: Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance.
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Steamboats and a Bridge

Date: 05 24 1894
Description: View across water towards a bridge with several steamboats lined up on the opposite shoreline on the other side of the bridge.
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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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Steamboats at Geneva Bay

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view from shoreline of two side wheeled steamboats, the "Lucius Newberry," left, and the "Lady of the Lake," docked at Geneva Lake. Other smaller ...
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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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Formal Group on Steamboat

Date: 1875
Description: A large group of well-dressed people are standing aboard three small steamboats on Lake Monona. The boat in the foreground is a barge with a sternwheel. Th...

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