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Sports and Recreation - Baseball

Manners and Customs, Recreation, Sports, Ball Games, Baseball, Sports Personnel, Athletes, Manners and Customs, Clothing and Dress Champions Upper Peninsula, 1897 [Studio portrait of the team and manager]

Scanned: March 28, 2007


Boats - Ice Breakers

Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Workboats, Tugboats, Manpower, Labor, Skilled Labor, Seasons, Winter Reid Wrecking Company tug breaking ice in Portage Lake. [Image of the ice breaker, Sarnia City with her crew.]

Scanned: April 4, 2007


Docks - Ontonagon

Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Harbors, Docks, Buildings Willard and Mercer Dock, Ontonagon, MI Harbor, 1864 Prop. Norman - Schr. G. W. Ford, Schr. J. Fretter - Tug, Senaga [Image of the dock and harbor.]

Scanned: April 26, 2007


Ships - Charles H. Bradley

Ships, Water, Buildings Str. Charles H. Bradley - burned entrance to Portage River at Big Portage Oct. 9, 1931. Built 1890, 1,200-t, wood, 4 hatches, 201' x 37'x13'6". [Image of the ship passing by what appears to be a lumber yard.]

Scanned: April 4, 2007


Boats - Peerless

Ships, Water, Buildings Peerless of Chicago at Dollar Bay. [A man stands on the dock. The dock is loaded with barrels and what appear to be copper ingots.]

Scanned: April 4, 2007


Shafthouse - Lake Superior Mine

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Seasons, Winter The shafthouse at the Lake Superior Mine near Winona, MI. At the time this photo was snapped there were three miners in the shaft located 800 feet below the surface. This particular shafthouse witnessed a fall of 10 inches of snow on the day the picture was snapped. Winona is in heavy snow country. [Image of the snow covered shaft house.]

Scanned: April 4, 2007


Ships - Algoma

Ships, Harbors, Docks, Seasons, Winter Steamship Algoma as she arrived at Port Arthur covered with ice. [Image of the ship at dock.]

Scanned: April 4, 2007


Life Saving Boats

Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Workboats, Persons, Water, Lakes Life saving crew canal E. Side - Capt. McCormick [Picture of the crew and captain with the boat on shore.]

Scanned: April 26, 2007


Life Saving Boats

Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Workboats, Inland Navigation, Canals, Aids to Navigation, Lighthousers Life saving boat and look-out tower canal. [Image of the boat and tower with what appears to be a lighthouse in the background.]

Scanned: April 26, 2007


Ships - Benjamin F. Fairless

Ships, Storms, Persons Captain Brissette on the steamer Benjamin F. Fairless at South Chicago after a rough trip down the lake. [Image of the captain leaning on a ice covered railing.]

Scanned: April 26, 2007