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Hillside Home School

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of Hillside Home School with a bridge in the foreground.
Photograph

Corner of Main Street and Tayco Street

Date: 1870
Description: The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble...
Photograph

Mount Calvary College

Date: 1893
Description: View down tree-lined road, with Mount Calvary College on a hill in the distance.
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
Description: Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ...
Photograph

Milwaukee College

Date: 1910
Description: The central gothic structure was built around 1852 for the Milwaukee Female College and the wings were added at a later time. Later this building was used...
Painting

Grand Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel...
Photograph

State Historical Society Under Construction

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view across Langdon Street of the Wisconsin State Historical Society building under construction in winter with snow on the ground. A group of men...
Photograph

Footwear for Troops

Date: 1914
Description: Men and children are standing around a cart which has a large pile of footwear on it for troops on the battlefield.
Postcard

A.D. German Warehouse

Date: 06 08 1992
Description: Text on reverse reads: "The A.D. German Warehouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright stands proudly in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Wright's birthplace. Frank L...
Postcard

Souvenir Folder of Superior Wis.

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a souvenir folder of Superior. Caption on front reads: "Largest Iron Ore and Coal Docks in the World." A ship named "Ashcroft" is depicted l...

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