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Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

Date: 
Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Boscobel

Date: 1869
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Boscobel, Grant County, depicts street names and street layouts, houses, rivers and trees. A reference key at the bottom of the map sh...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye of Platteville, Grant County, Wis. Looking North East

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Platteville.
Photograph

Stock Day at Blue River

Date: 12 06 1910
Description: Elevated view of stock day at the railroad yards, showing pens of sheep and other livestock ready for loading into railroad cars. All of the cars are deco...
Drawing

Drawing of Cassville

Date: 1829
Description: Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1973
Description: Exterior of public school building, with a slide and trees.
Photograph

Buildings at Crossroads

Date: 05 1962
Description: Texaco gas station on the left and cars parked on the road next to buildings in downtown Beetown. The road is rutted and muddy with puddles. Several signs ...
Photograph

Canal Street in Bloomington Before the Fire

Date: 11 01 1896
Description: Canal Street less than a year before a fire swept through and destroyed many of these buildings on March 22, 1897, resulting in a loss of about $45,000. Pr...
Photograph

Canal and Congress Streets in Bloomington

Date: 1880
Description: Slightly elevated view of street corner, with two buildings that have been destroyed by a fire, a brick fence, and some trees. There is a wooden cart in th...
Photograph

Former Flour Mill

Date: 1956
Description: The stone building formerly housed the flour mill. The mill was established in 1852, but had pretty well gone out of business by 1895, by which time the po...
Photograph

Covered Bridge through Trees

Date: 1920
Description: Bridge over river from shoreline seen through trees in the spring or summer. Part of the bridge is covered.
Photograph

Aerial View of Covered Bridge

Date: 1920
Description: Aerial view of the last covered bridge, which is no longer standing.
Photograph

British Hollow's Commercial District Street

Date: 1930
Description: Street leading down to British Hollow's commercial district. A hill is in the background.
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
Photograph

Denniston House

Date: 1900
Description: Denniston House, P.J. Schnorrenberg, proprietor. View across railroad tracks of the hotel entrance with porch. A man and three women are standing on the po...
Postcard

Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1935
Description: Caption reads: "Hotel Oelke - on the banks of the Mississippi River, Cassville, Wisconsin." Sign on the hotel reads: "Old Denniston House". This view show...
Photograph

Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1945
Description: The hotel has a sign above the porch that reads: "Old Denniston House".
Photograph

Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Denniston House Hotel.
Photograph

Habermann Hotel and Buffet

Date: 1900
Description: View across dirt road of two businesses. On the left is a two-story brick building with large windows which are painted with signs that say: "Habermann Buf...
Photograph

Cassville Residential Street

Date: 1908
Description: Snow-covered residential street with houses on each side.

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