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Map or Atlas

Kenosha, Wis.

Date: 12 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Kenosha.
Photograph

Chicago Traveling Club: Trip Eight

Date: 1878
Description: Group of men outside tent with "The Boss" sign above door and labels on some of the fellows' shirts saying, "CTC," an abbreviation for the Chicago Travelin...
Photograph

Boys of the Hawthorne, Chicago Traveling Club

Date: 1878
Description: Boys outside tent that has sign, "Boys of the Hawthorne" above its door. This picture is identified as the Chicago Traveling Club's trip #8.
Photograph

Chicago Traveling Club

Date: 1878
Description: A tent of the Chicago Traveling Club with a sign on it saying "Always Hungry," and men with walking sticks, straw hats and a flute lounging on the ground i...
Photograph

Crowded Pier and Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat.
Photograph

People aboard Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: People seated in a small steamboat tied at a pier on a lake. A flag flies from the bow and there is a two-story frame house on the shore. This photograph m...
Photograph

Durkee House

Date: 1860
Description: The Durkee house, residence of Charles Durkee.
Photograph

O.S. Head House

Date: 1896
Description: The residence of O.S. Head. A man is sitting in the foreground on a wrap-around bench around a tree.
Photograph

Kenosha Water Cure

Date: 1880
Description: The Kenosha water cure on the corner of N. Main and Grand Avenue. It was built in the 1840's for educational and religious purposes. It burned down in 1900...
Photograph

I.G. Merrill Home

Date: 1879
Description: The home of I.G. Merrill, located on the corner of Ann Street (now called Sheridan Road) and Prairie Avenue, in the winter.
Photograph

St. Matthews Church

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of the exterior of St. Matthews Church.
Photograph

Battle Hollow

Date: 1898
Description: The site of the encounter between Black Hawk and his followers and General Henry.
Print

Kenosha's Countryside

Date: 1872
Description: An excerpt from "Picturesque America," ed. Bryant, (1872).
Photograph

Barn Raising at Paddock Farm

Date: 1891
Description: Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50.
Photograph

Far Traveled Ox-Drawn Cart

Date: 1838
Description: Ox-drawn cart in which Mr. and Mrs. Salmon Upson traveled from Connecticut in 1838.
Map or Atlas

Mrs. C.E. Packman Farm

Date: 1878
Description: An etching of the farm and residence of Mrs. C.E. Packman and her son.
Print

Kenosha Harbor

Date: 1856
Description: Lithograph image of several boats in a harbor. Most are flying American flags from their masts. One has a flag on which "C. Harrison" is printed. Someone h...

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