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| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a lake shoreline. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore. |
| Date: | 05 24 1894 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a bridge with several steamboats lined up on the opposite shoreline on the other side of the bridge. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Great Lakes steamer Walk-in-the-Water. |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Great Lakes steamer Thomas Jefferson. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of a steamboat landing at Whiting House. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map of the Lake Superior region showing the railroad and steamboat connection. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | View of Detroit with several boats and ships in (probably) the Detroit River. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of a bridge at Chattanooga with a steamship passing nearby. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Map of the Lake Superior region showing the railroad and steamboat connections. |
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