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Category: Objects -> Maritime: Objects  
Donor: Unknown
Location: Document Room -> Document Boxes -> Maritime 3  
Accession Number: 2017.2533.3826  
Name of Object: photos on scrapboard neat story Milwaukee and Wisconsin  
Description: Pages 77, 78 of photos on scrapboard. "cardeck" being converted into "autodeck" in 1940 of PM 17 , later renamed City of Petosky after being sold to state of Michigan for service on the straits. Picture of Pere Marquette 17 bound for Ludington (from Milwaukee) in a storm, 1929. Photo taken by Thomas Sturdy from the PM 19. Typewritten account of storm and loss of "Wisconsin" (previously called "Naomi") on October 29, 1940. Hero of that wreck was Bob McKay.  
Condition: Fair  
Height: 14 inches
Width: 10 inches