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2005.104.022 - Blueprint
Blueprint and photographs mounted on foam board. The front side features a black and white blueprint of the inboard profile and hull plan for the Minnesota Centennial Showboat designed by Timothy Graul Marine Design, Inc. No.801-003. The back side features twelve color photographs featuring the launch of the showboat on June 28, 2001 with Captain William Bowell, Sr.

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2005.104.030 - Blueprint
Blueprint featuring the outboard profile of the Minnesota Showboat in red, black, white and gold colors designed by Timothy Graul Marine Design, Inc. No.801-002. The steamboat is white with a black hull and red trim. At the bottom of the blueprint are some colored fabric swatches for color matches.

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2005.104.036 - Print
Line drawing schematic of the hydraulic propulsion system aboard the river vessel Jonathan Padelford. Print is mounted to poster board.

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2005.104.037 - Blueprint
Line drawing of the hull profile and hull plan of the river vessel Virginia designed by Timothy Graul Marine Design,Inc. dated 11/21/1995. No.801-001. Print is mounted to poster board.

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2005.104.038 - Painting
Gouache painting of three birds. Painting features a heron, wood duck and cormorant. The three birds are in full color and on a plain white poster board. No frame.

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2005.104.040 - Painting
Gouache painting mounted on poster board featuring a snapping turtle, northern pike, catfish, river otter, frog, walleye and chickadee. Animals are in full color on a plain white background.

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2005.104.041 - Painting
Gouache painting featuring an eagle, kingfisher, beaver, raccoon and pelican. All five animals are in full color and are on the same poster board which is white. No frame.

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2005.104.043 - Painting
Gouache painting featuring a loon. The bird is black with white dots and is flying up out of the water. No frame.

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2005.104.044 - Painting
Gouache painting of a falcon. The falcon's feathers are a dark blue and he is in perched on a tree branch, on a white background. No frame.

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2005.104.045 - Painting
Gouache painting of a black-crowned night heron. The birds feathers are black with white highlights and he is perched on a tree branch. Painting is on a white board and no frame.

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2005.170.001 - Map
Map of the Dubuque County Soil Conservation District. White map with black print.

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2007.768 - Map
Map of the Mississippi River at Mississippi and Arkansas.The map was published by the Mississippi River Commission in 1883. Sketched on white paper with black print and the history of Greenville, MS at the bottom. Map is in a dark gray and burlap matte and wood frame.

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2007.819 - Collage
Framed printed advertisements for local Dubuque companies. At the top of the frame is a colored print of the manufacturing plant of Carr, Adams and Collier Company. The bottom left has an brochure for Caradco Wood Windows. The bottom right has two pages from a brochure for windows; the top piece is labeled "warm one." All four pieces are in a black metal frame.

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2007.833 - Painting
Watercolor painting featuring the Ham House. Painting shows the back of the house, which is cream colored with a dark grey roof. Several trees are surrounding the house and the ground is wheat colored. The painting is in a thin blue matte and a thicker beige colored matte, but no frame.

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2007.836 - Certificate, Membership
Certificate from the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America. At the top portion of the certificate are the signatures of ten members. Below that is a statement giving the purpose of the organization. It is signed, sealed and witnessed by the president of the organization W.D. Mahon. Certificate is in a wood frame.

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2007.845 - Documents
Photocopy of an enrollment document for Dubuque's first steamboat the Fanny Harris. At the top of the document there is an image of steamboats. To the right is a list of information which includes the name of the captain, where it was built, when it was enrolled, how many decks and measurements of the boat. To the left is the documentation for sale of the Fanny Harris to a Dubuque captain only a year later. Paper is in a wood frame. This is fo...

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2007.859 - Poster
Homemade rectangular poster featuring a sketched portrait of John Lyon Langworthy at the top with his birth and death dates hand written in black ink to the left. Below is a short handwritten biography of Langworthy. Beneath the biography is an envelope with the return address of H.G. Langworthy on it. Inside the envelope is one piece of paper currency from the Dubuque Western Railroad company signed by L.H. Langworthy. At the bottom is the newsp...

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2007.902 - Certificate, Stock
Stock certificate for the Dubuque Harbor Improvement Company in the amount of $1,000. The certificate is made out to John Finley and is signed by L.H. Langworth (Lucius Langworthy) In a brown colored matte and gold painted wood frame.

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2007.903 - Letter
Framed letter from the Waterloo and Ceder Falls Gas and Electric Light Company to Mr. George McLean of Dubuque. The letter is to request a car for use for work being performed in Waterloo and is signed by Austin Burt. Typed on company letterhead.

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2007.911 - Postcard
15 black and white postcards of steamboats, mounted and framed. Two postcards show interior views and the rest are exterior views of steamboats. The boats are The Sidney Line, The Washington, The Morning Star 1911, G.W. Hill, The Helen Blair, The Majestic, The Capatol ex steamer Dubuque, The Sentor ex steamer St. Paul, The President, The W.W. They are taped on paper and in a wood frame.

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