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Milton H. Pettit House

Date: 1920
Description: The home of Milton H. Pettit, built about 1899.
Postcard

St. Matthews Church

Date: 1908
Description: View down street toward St. Matthews Church and surrounding buildings. Pedestrians and dogs are walking on the street and sidewalks. Caption reads: "St. Ma...
Postcard

St. Matthews Church

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards the church. Caption reads: "St. Matthews Church, Kenosha, Wis."
Photograph

Sheridan Road

Date: 11 17 1937
Description: Looking northeast on Sheridan Road (State Highway 42) at Sheridan Road Grade Crossing.
Photograph

Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets

Date: 1930
Description: Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets, with early houses, car and barn.
Photograph

S.W. Truesdell Home

Date: 1920
Description: The home of photographer S.W. Truesdell. A man is standing in the snow in front of the fence near a horse and sleigh.
Postcard

United Refrigerator and Ice Machine Company

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the factory. Caption reads: "Plant of the United Refrigerator and Ice Machine Company, Kenosha, Wis. December 1st, 1912."
Print

View of Southport

Date: 1842
Description: Lithograph of Southport.
Photograph

Villiage of Southport

Date: 10 1844
Description: A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb...
Print

Southport From the Water

Date: 10 1844
Description: View from a pile-driver on the north pier of the community then known as Southport. The pier visible at left center, constructed between 1840-1842, was th...
Postcard

Wisconsin Street

Date: 1900
Description: View across intersection toward a building on the street corner. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Street, Kenosha, Wis."
Photograph

YMCA Building

Date: 1934
Description: The second YMCA building in Kenosha. It was used as a commercial structure at the time of the photograph.
Print

Fishing Station

Date: 
Description: Engraving of a wooden shack on a Lake Michigan beach surrounded by rowboats, a campfire, and a wooded bluff. Two men stand on the beach near the water.
Photograph

Kenosha Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Constructed by Gregario Gallo in 1923 and 1924, the building at 2122 Sixtieth Street, incorporated concrete pilasters and an entablature with a plain friez...
Photograph

Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library

Date: 
Description: Exterior view from tree-lined cobblestone street of the Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library. The library opened in 1900 and was funded with a gift of $150,00...
Photograph

Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library

Date: 
Description: Exterior view from tree-lined cobblestone street of the Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library. The library opened in 1900 and was funded with a gift of $150,00...
Map or Atlas

Map of Kenosha County Wisconsin : From Actual Surveys Under the Direction of H.F. Walling

Date: 1861
Description: Depths shown by soundings. Shows township and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, railroads, and buildings. "Entered according to Act of Congress ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Kenosha County, Wisconsin Showing Rural Delivery Service

Date: 1910
Description: Map shows routes, post offices, churches, schools, houses, and roads on the rural delivery service route in blue lines. An explanation key appears on the l...
Map or Atlas

Kenosha Harbor & Bar, Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This map has relief shown by hachures and soundings and shows local streets, proposed roads, railroads, bridge wharfs, basin, north arm, and west arm of Ke...
Map or Atlas

Kenosha, Wisconsin : Ward Map

Date: 1948
Description: This map shows wards and precincts and includes a list of polling places by ward and precinct. The map reads: "Keep this Map . . . It Gives the Location of...

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