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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the new museum building, also known as "Bruen's Block," on the corner of East Washington Avenue and South Pinckney Street. Named for W.D. B... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said." |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Strang House, also called "Mormon House," where "King" Strang lived and died, and where he published the Voree Herald. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Main Street in Cedarburg. Includes text which reads: "Cedarburg, Wis., in the year 1850, showing Main Street as it appeared at that time. The photograph wa... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Angled front view of front and left side of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the First Methodist Church. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | View of the first Norwegian Church built in Gjerpen, organized October 4, 1850. Gjerpen was one of the earliest Norwegian settlements in Wisconsin |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Green Bay Intelligencer Newspaper Office. This was the first newspaper published in Wisconsin. The building was on Main Street. This drawing appeared in an... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Green Bay harbor and docks. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | An original pencil sketch by banker and real estate developer Napoleon B. Van Slyke, possibly for his residence erected in 1859 at 510 North Carroll Street... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | An illustration of the Old North Pier landing on Huron Street, drawn from memory. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Illustration of an early design for the 3rd Wisconsin State Capitol, the second in Madison. Caption reads: "State Capitol at Madison — Donnel & Kutzbock, A... |
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