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34 black and white photographs and drawings in an envelope labeled "Immortal River, Chapter 13 (?) Extras," in reference to Cal Fremling's book about the Mississippi River. Part of the Cal R. Fremling collection. Items are photographic prints created from historical photographs and displays created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (St. Paul district), and other unknown photographers. Also included are four cross-section drawings showing "the evolution of the Mississippi River Valley at Winona" as one example of geologic and river development in the driftless ("unglaciated") region, used as figures on pages 66-67 of Immortal River. Other image subjects include: barge construction and traffic, wing dams, maps, riverboats, plants and wildlife, Fountain City, river maintenance, industry, historical river workers. Some prints dated and attributed. Reprint dates are unknown. Exact locations pictured unknown unless specified. Print sizes are mostly 8"x10" with some smaller (5"x10" , 7"x9"). Cross-section drawings are 9"x8.5" and backed with cardboard.

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Publication Date

1960

Item Type

Article

Publisher

Library

City

Winona, Minnesota

Keywords

Mississippi River; United State Army Corps of Engineers; Winona, Minn.; Fountain City; Wis.

Department

Special Collections - Library

Disciplines

Animal Sciences | Aquaculture and Fisheries | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Entomology | Life Sciences | Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology

Notes

No date available. A placeholder date of 1960-01-01 has been placed in the date field.

Rights Management

Requests to reproduce this image must be granted by the Winona County Historical Society.

Contributing Institution

Winona County History Center

Dimensions

multiple

Master File Format

TIFF

Fiscal Sponsor

This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.

Scanning Responsibility

Northern Micrographics

Date Digital

2019-06-02

Metadata Creation Responsibility

Anna Gaffey

Unique Identifier

2013.019.0001

Immortal River photograph extras

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