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| Date: | 1857 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Color bird's-eye map of Wauwatosa, looking east toward Milwaukee and Lake Michigan. Predominantly green with cream colored roadways, with six land plots ow... |
| Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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| Description: | View of the Central High School entrance arch at 214 Wisconsin Avenue. Ivy is growing around the entrance, and is obscuring the carved letters of "High Sch... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Baraboo with inset of Devil's Lake, the south and east sides of the commercial square, the First National Bank, and the Warren House hote... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614 showing men at the water's edge being beckoned by mermaids. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Street scene in Chicago of North Michigan Avenue and Ontario Street looking north. The historic Water Tower is in the background. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | One of "Three different views of the World's Fair at Philadelphia" mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." On the stereograph itself is... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu... |
| Date: | 05 17 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group, mainly men, are gathered behind the "Lake City Cornet Band" who are in uniform near a lake shore, possibly Lake Monona. The card was marked ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmers and Merchants Union Bank, designed by Louis H. Sullivan. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Downtown view of Green Bay, including the Fox Theatre and the Green Bay Specialty Company. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Droster's Grocery store and filling station. The business was located on the corner of 1438 North Sherman Avenue and Logan Street and was ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Droster Store at the corner of Burke and Felland Road. It is currently the Burke Station Tavern. |
| Date: | 04 01 1940 |
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| Description: | Droster's General Motors truck, used to deliver groceries, meats and hardware to their customers. The store was sold to Schubering, ca. 1950. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Residential block of North Sherman Avenue between McPherson and Farragut Street, across from Sherman School. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the 1914 Sun Prairie freshman class. Included in the group is Bill Droster, grandfather of the donor of this image. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Residence in Belle Isle on Lake Monona in Squaw Bay, off Winnequah Road. The building is no longer standing. |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowd with two sailors hugging each other. Sailor with his back to the camera is Seabee B. O. Pledger; other sailor is unknown. They are celebrating V-J Da... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Janesville showing the river fill for the new sewerage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Like many early settlements of southeastern Wisconsin, Clinton was founded in 1836 by Yankees--immigrants from New England and New York. |
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