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Mississippi River by Highway 35

Date: 09 1962
Description: The Mississippi River along Highway 35.
Photograph

Lynxville

Date: 1902
Description: View of Lynxville from the river.
Photograph

Tower Foundation

Date: 1898
Description: View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f...
Photograph

Fort Crawford

Date: 1864
Description: Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho...
Map or Atlas

Manuscript Map of Early Prairie du Chien

Date: 1820
Description: A manuscript map of Prairie du Chien.
Photograph

Golfing at Villa Louis

Date: 
Description: A man and woman golf on the west lawn of Villa Louis. They are probably members of the Dousman family.
Photograph

Elevated View of Town

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the town with a church building in the left foreground. Caption reads: "Birds Eye View Mt Sterling, Wis."
Photograph

St. Mary's Institute, St. Mary's College

Date: 1922
Description: View of St. Mary's Institute in 1872, and a view of St. Mary's College in 1922.
Postcard

Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. Established in 1903, it became a general hospital in the 1930s. A group of people are posing on the lawn ...
Postcard

Sanitarium

Date: 1907
Description: View of Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. "The grounds where this sanitarium stands was the site of Gen. Taylor's headquarters at Fort Crawford in 1832. It was ...
Postcard

View of Sanitarium

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior view of the Praire du Chien Sanitarium. Caption reads: "Sanitarium, Prairie du Chien, Wis."
Photograph

D. Scanlon House

Date: 1930
Description: D. Scanlon house with small, enclosed porch, on N. Beaumont Street.
Photograph

Vedder House

Date: 
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Cornelia Vedder house. A woman is standing on the porch. Described as the house "where George Winnie, a conductor on the...
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 
Description: 1. Stone Astor Fur Co. building built in 1808. 2. Voth Cottage, built in 1930. 3. Brisbois mansion, built 1808, by Michael Brisbois. 4. Site of Hudson Bay ...
Painting

View From Brisbois Point

Date: 1954
Description: View from Brisbois Point. Prairie du Chien lies below, and beyond the Mississippi River rise Iowa's hills.
Photograph

North First Street

Date: 1931
Description: View from shoreline towards North First Street showing the Brisbois house (center).
Drawing

View of Prairie du Chien

Date: 1836
Description: Woodcut of Prairie du Chien in 1836. Text at bottom reads: "Prairie du Chien in 1836. From an old cut."
Print

View of Town

Date: 1900
Description: Dr. Jesse Rowley is driving the buggy on the road. Dr. Rowley was a co-founder of the Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Peopl...
Photograph

View from Reservoir Bluff

Date: 10 1905
Description: Elevated view from Reservoir Bluff to the east of the town. The bluffs of Iowa can be seen in the distance.
Photograph

Villa Louis

Date: 1953
Description: Villa Louis, the mansion of Hercules Dousman.

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