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Main Street

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of several establishments along Main Street with people standing along the walkway in front of them. The signs on the buildings read: "R.L...
Photograph

Buildings Along Levee

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph view of the levee, with buildings along the left. Signs on the buildings read, left to right: "(?) Hotel", "Saloon" and "Dunbar's Hall." People...
Print

Congregational Church

Date: 1899
Description: Exterior view of a congregational church.
Photograph

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad

Date: 1886
Description: View of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad drawbridge and trestle.
Photograph

Rest Stop

Date: 1925
Description: A passenger bus making a stop at the service station of Gustav H. Schwalen.
Postcard

Steamboat on Mississippi River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view looking down towards a steamboat pulling a raft of lumber on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis."
Postcard

Steamboat on Mississippi River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view over trees toward a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis."
Photograph

Fortune's Car

Date: 1928
Description: George Fortune of River Falls sitting in his new car, with his dog in the back seat.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Ellsworth

Date: 08 1927
Description: Sanborn map of Ellsworth, Wisconsin.
Photograph

El Paso Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Knute Bjornson originally built this house in the 1860's and in 1933, his grandson Cooney Bjornson reassembled the humble log building to house a gas stati...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the row of shops along Main Street, with J.W. Allard's store in the foreground on the right. A group of men are further down the street.
Print

Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin

Date: 1874
Description: Engraved view of Maiden's Rock at Lake Pepin. A steamboat is on the Mississippi River.
Map or Atlas

Pierce County Wisconsin

Date: 1922
Description: This map of Pierce County, Wisconsin, from the first half of the 20th century, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, villages, roads, railroa...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard view of a street in a rural community's central business district. A biplane, printed into the background, is flying low overhead. A ...
Map or Atlas

Village Plat of Prescott, Saint Croix Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1882
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on paper and shows numbered plots, the public square, streets, Lake St. Croix and the Mississippi River.
Postcard

Steamboats on the Mississippi River at Diamond Bluff

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view across water towards three steamboats on the shoreline of the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Maiden Rock

Date: 
Description: View across Mississippi River towards Maiden Rock. Railroad tracks are in the foreground.
Photograph

Sand Mine

Date: 07 1936
Description: A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine.
Photograph

Rush River Lutheran Church, Centennial

Date: 06 09 1955
Description: Exterior of church, with cemetery and steeple visible. A sign identifying it as Rush River Luth[eran] hangs over the door. Cars are parked outside the chur...
Photograph

Swimming in Bay City

Date: 06 20 1966
Description: Group portrait of four young women sitting on the edge of a dock with their feet in the water. One woman is holding a Pepsi bottle. In the background, boat...

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