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Meyer Adelman and Bridget Hursley

Date: 09 1943
Description: A man sorts vegetables into a basket while a girl looks on. Caption reads: "Thiensville (vicinity), Wis. Sept, 1943. Meyer Adelman and granddaughter of Met...
Photograph

Emil Costello and Meyer Adelman

Date: 09 1943
Description: Two men pose outside a brick building. The man on the left is holding a rifle. Caption reads: "Thiensville (vicinity), Wis. Sept, 1943. Meyer Adelman and E...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Five Wisconsin Towns in Ozaukee County

Date: 1915
Description: A composite plat map of the towns of Mequon, Saukville, Belgium, Fort Washington, and Fredonia.
Map or Atlas

Mequon Plat Map

Date: 1921
Description: A plat map of Mequon, Wisconsin. Text at top reads: "T. 9N. R.21 E MEQUON T. 9N. R.22 E."
Postcard

Karl Zettler Half-Timber Cottage

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Karl Zettler Half-Timber Cottage, Ozaukee County Pioneer Village, Waubeka, Wisconsin." Built in 1849, the cottage was moved to the Oz...
Postcard

Post Office

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office, Thiensville, Wis." The first Post Office in the community was located in a cabin in 1840. Many of the next Post Offices ...
Postcard

John Schuch's Donges Bay Resort

Date: 08 05 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "John Schuch's Donges Bay Resort." A man stands on a trail, gazing over shrubs at a bay on Lake Michigan. The shoreline is surrounded ...
Postcard

Donges Bay Boat House

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Donges Bay Boat House." A man rowing a boat with two women passengers, in front of a boathouse built of rocks. A lawn jockey stands o...
Postcard

Donges Bay

Date: 07 25 19011
Description: Text on front reads: "John Schuchs, The only natural Pine Grove within a 100 Miles of this City. The Grandest and Finest Ravines, at Donges Bay, and Fairy ...
Postcard

Boaters and Boathouse

Date: 1907
Description: Handwriting on reverse reads: "Bornstein's boat house (formerly Blommer) and our 3 mile lake created by the dam." Three men are in two rowboats on a lake. ...
Postcard

Canning Factory

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: Text on front reads: "Canning Factory, Saukville, Wis." Brick factory buildings with a tall chimney and a water tower. A man and an automobile can be seen ...
Photograph

Summer Show

Date: 07 07 1989
Description: View of a stage rehearsal. A man is standing and pointing at a man who is lying on the stage. A woman is grabbing the standing man's arm. Caption reads: "S...
Photograph

Circus Parade

Date: 07 03 1989
Description: Three children are sitting on a platform. They are wearing animal costumes and holding American flags. Caption reads: "Two youngsters dressed as animals to...
Photograph

Trying Stilts

Date: 09 05 1989
Description: A boy walking on a pair of stilts. Caption reads: "Mark Emiley, 13, stands tall as he tries a pair of stilts during a garage sale in Cedarburg Monday."
Photograph

Vintage Finds?

Date: 04 21 1989
Description: Two men examining bottles they are holding. Other people are standing in the background. Caption reads: "VINTAGE FINDS? — John Brandt (foreground) of Hartf...
Postcard

Halpin Cottage

Date: 1957
Description: A clapboard house with a white picket fence in the Ozaukee County Pioneer Village. Text on back reads: "Ozaukee County, Pioneer Village, Wisconsin. Halpin ...
Postcard

Karl Zettler Half-Timber House

Date: 1957
Description: A timber and masonry house in the Ozaukee County Pioneer Village. Text on back reads: "Ozaukee County, Pioneer Village, Wisconsin. Karl Zettler Half-Timber...
Postcard

Michael Ahner Log House

Date: 1957
Description: A log house in the Ozaukee County Pioneer Village. Text on back reads: "Ozaukee County, Pioneer Village, Wisconsin. Typical of the home built by German Imm...
Postcard

Hilgendorf House

Date: 
Description: An original half timber pioneer dwelling built in 1842. Located on Hwy 167 near Mequon.
Postcard

Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels

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Description: Interior of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels at Notre Dame of the Lake.

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