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Kenosha, Wis.

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

Durkee House

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

Durkee House

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of the Durkee House built by Charles Durkee in 1843.
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

Kimball's Hall

Date: 1870
Description: View across intersection towards Kimball's Hall, one of the first brick buildings in Kenosha. A sign on the right side of the building reads: "Dewey & Sinc...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view looking down Main Street. There are horse-drawn vehicles, and pedestrians are walking on the street and sidewalks.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 05 12 1898
Description: View down center of street with shops and stores on either side of Main Street.
Photograph

I.G. Merrill House

Date: 1860
Description: The home of I.G. Merrill on the corner of Ann Street (now called Sheridan Road) and Prairie Avenue. A person is standing in front of the fence at the corne...
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.
Print

View of Southport

Date: 1842
Description: Lithograph of Southport.
Photograph

Battle Hollow

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

Kenosha's Countryside

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

Water Power Location in the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
Description: This map shows the dams and locks of the Fox River between Neenah, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Kaukauna, in Outagamie County. The cities and villag...
Map or Atlas

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1850
Description: A map which includes the ink and pencil annotations showing the sections, sold parcels of land, and streams and lakes on a printed township base map for To...
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

Leonard's Addition to Salem Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Map is ink and pencil on paper. Map showing Leonard's Addition to Salem Wisconsin in Kenosha County. The plats are numbered.

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