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H.W. Tenney House

Date: 1885
Description: This is the H.W. Tenney house built by Charles Patten in the late 1870's, bought by Mr. Tenney in the spring of 1881. The people are, (left to right): Eva ...
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Main Street in Cedarburg

Date: 1850
Description: Main Street in Cedarburg. Includes text which reads: "Cedarburg, Wis., in the year 1850, showing Main Street as it appeared at that time. The photograph wa...
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ...
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Steamboat at Ingram & Kennedy's

Date: 1870
Description: View of the town and Chippewa river, with a steamboat in the center along the riverbank. A smaller boat is next to the steamboat, with a man standing eithe...
Photograph

Aerial View with Old Court House

Date: 1890
Description: Aerial view of downtown Green Bay with old Court House and the surrounding buildings.
Photograph

View of the Harbor

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view looking north toward the harbor with multiple buildings in the foreground.
Photograph

Clark's Saw and Planing Mill

Date: 1880
Description: Clark's Saw and Planing Mill in the right foreground which is now the site of the electric plant. Behind Clark's is Plummers Mill where the Vocational Scho...
Photograph

Marathon County Court House

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view. The church in the left background is the Zion Lutheran Church. The white house behind the bandstand is Captain Leahy's home (father of Admir...
Photograph

Gregory Residence

Date: 1875
Description: The Gregory Residence, 145 West Gilman Street, home of Jared Comstock Gregory, his wife Charlotte Camp Gregory, and their children, Stephen Strong Gregory ...
Photograph

Main Street, Fifield

Date: 07 27 1893
Description: View across street of towards the business district along the left.
Photograph

Appleton Woolen Mills

Date: 1893
Description: View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story bui...
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 12

Date: 1872
Description: Employees of the West Wisconsin Railway stand in a line in front of Engine No. 12. From left to right are E.S. Graves (auditor's office clerk), A.H. Baldwi...
Magazine or Periodical

Wheelmen in Boston

Date: 05 30 1881
Description: Engraving of a sketch by Joseph Pennell showing a parade of League of American Wheelmen bicyclists along Commonwealth Avenue between Dartmouth Street and W...
Photograph

Snow Covered Street

Date: 1889
Description: Winter scene of North Broadway at Cass Street, De Pere, Wisconsin. Streets are snow covered.
Photograph

Residential Street

Date: 1899
Description: Residential street, North Broadway at Cass Street.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of catalog for harvesting machines. Front contains illustration of a torn hole with the eye of a buck looking through the hole. Superi...

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