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Map or Atlas

La Crosse, Wis.

Date: 1873
Description: Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River.
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Photograph

Iron Bridge across Mississippi

Date: 1875
Description: "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu...
Print

Edward P. Allis Reliance Works

Date: 1900
Description: Main factory with South Foundry in lower left. Lake Michigan is in the background. Later the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Photograph

House at 1705 Sheridan Drive

Date: 1948
Description: Exterior of the house at 1705 Sheridan Drive and the garage behind it shortly after construction. The house was built by Willard Droster. There is a dog o...
Photograph

Tugboat, East River

Date: 1968
Description: A tugboat passes under the Brooklyn Bridge. Seagulls circle over the water and the developed shoreline is visible in the distance.
Print

Hamburg Landing

Date: 05 31 1862
Description: Engraved view of the Commisary [sic] depot of Major-General Halleck's army at Hamburg Landing.
Photograph

Neitzel Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Jim and Donna Neitzel own this barn at W1734 Hwy TW (Section 5). They purchased it 23 years ago. This barn has been in the Neitzel name for 100 years and w...
Photograph

Kletzien Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Mark and Vicky Kletzien, with their children, Ben and Mindy, live at N9742 Cty Road. AY. Just a bit north of the Theresa Township line.
Photograph

Downtown Automobile Race

Date: 07 04 1911
Description: Elevated view looking towards sidewalk and street of a crowd looking at automobiles lined up for a downtown race. According to Alan Picha of the Hillsboro ...
Photograph

Record Breaking Catch

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Description: Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr...
Photograph

Downtown Hillsboro

Date: 1908
Description: View across unpaved street of people, horses and wagons, and businesses on one side of Water Avenue, the heart of Hillsboro's downtown and business distric...
Photograph

Martin K. Dahl House

Date: 1885
Description: Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom...
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Barnum Scene

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of the same location, presented as a pair. The vintage view includes a dirt road, several buildings, horses, and people. T...
Photograph

Harriet Oiyotte LaSarge

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Description: Harriet Oiyotte LaSarge poses next to a goggle wearing hound dog on a motorcycle. On the left, another Native American individual looks on. In the backgrou...
Photograph

Man with a Badger on a Leash at the UW Circus

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Description: A man is posing with a badger on a leash by the Armory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. He is wearing thickly quilted, light-colored pants, a...
Photograph

Lady with Seeing-Eye Dog

Date: 2013
Description: View from street towards a woman wearing a coat and boots standing at the corner of 7th and Cass Street with her seeing-eye dog. There is a fire hydrant on...
Photograph

Folgaria Hotel

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Description: Soldiers relaxing in front of the Folgaria Hotel in Italy. Three men on the left are smoking cigarettes, and a man in the center is sitting in a horse-draw...
Postcard

South Main Street Scene

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Description: Real Photo Post Card of a South Main Street scene. Men and women walk along the sidewalks and many horse-drawn vehicles are tethered in front of the stores...
Photograph

Horse and Cart

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Description: Stereograph of a man in a two wheeled cart drawn by one horse. He is stationary, posing in the street. In the background are buildings on both sides of the...

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