Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Oval-framed tintype portrait of John Alcock, a professor of phonography/shorthand at Bayless' Business College of Dubuque. He moved to Platteville and foun... |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Church in 1884. |
Date: | 05 12 1889 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Nelson Dewey on a cabinet card. He is wearing a suit and has a long white beard. |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906. |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in... |
Date: | 1829 |
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Description: | Wash drawing of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hollman, who were early settlers in Platteville, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Pedestrian walking on the snowy street in front of Daniel Fitch Brown's house. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Several generations of a family posing on the porch of a house. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View over water of a three-decked sternwheeler loaded with passengers and flying two large flags. The one at the back is a United States flag. There is a s... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Potosi Brewery at about the time Adam Schumacher took over the operation. Children and adults can be seen near a fence and in horse-dr... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The home of Governor Nelson Dewey, built in 1842 and later owned by Miss Abbey Phelps. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Caption reads: "First Soldier's Monuments Erected in the US — Lancaster Wis". There is a cannon and cannon balls on the lawn to the left of the monuments. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Grant County Soldier's Monument. A group of people are standing around the monument. A large building is in the background. Caption at... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view across grounds towards the Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1864. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s. |
Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Plat for a proposed Sinsinawa City (never built), in Grant County, Wis. When it became clear in the mid-1830s that Wisconsin Territory would be established... |
Date: | 1880 |
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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... |
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