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Bird's-Eye View of Peshtigo

Date: 09 1871
Description: Bird's-eye view of Peshtigo, before it was destroyed by fire on the night of October 8, 1871.
Photograph

Aftermath of Peshtigo Fire

Date: 1871
Description: Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire.
Photograph

Peshtigo Fire Ruins

Date: 1871
Description: Building destroyed in Peshtigo fire.
Photograph

Railroad Damage at the Peshtigo Fire

Date: 1871
Description: Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Marinette

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Marinette, with insets.
Photograph

Town from Across a River

Date: 1870
Description: View from shoreline over river towards the town.
Photograph

Marinette Harbor

Date: 1945
Description: Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance.
Photograph

Main Street Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner.
Photograph

A Walk on a Sunny Day

Date: 1910
Description: A young woman and four girls wearing frilly dresses and straw hats pose on a narrow wooden bridge.
Photograph

Aviation-Minded Governor

Date: 1928
Description: Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Peshtigo

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Peshtigo.
Photograph

Beer Drinkers

Date: 
Description: A group of men near the Koss railroad depot, the majority of whom are seated on the ground. One of the men is sitting on a piano stool. To the right of the...
Photograph

Wisconsin & Michigan Locomotive at Marinette

Date: 05 24 1936
Description: A Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad pulling into the station at Marinette. The conductor on the step has been identified as Ray Campbell.
Photograph

Holmes Junction Depot

Date: 
Description: View down center of railroad tracks towards Holmes Junction, an intersection of the Wisconsin & Michigan and the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul railroads, ...
Photograph

Wisconsin & Michigan Employees

Date: 1907
Description: Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse.
Photograph

Peshtigo Train Depot

Date: 1920
Description: View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s...
Postcard

Street in Crivitz

Date: 
Description: View down center of one of the major streets. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Crivitz Wis." There is a church building on the left side.
Print

Christ Feed Mill

Date: 1963
Description: H.P. Christ Feed Mill. The first building across the street is the Atlas Hotel which was located at the site of the present Milo Howarth senior home. Other...
Photograph

Land Economic Inventory Mapping Crew

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction.
Postcard

New Hattie Street Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: View from shoreline toward the new Hattie Street Bridge. Factory buildings are on the shoreline behind. Caption reads: "New Hattie Street Bridge, Marinette...

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