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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Bayfield

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Bayfield, county seat of Bayfield County. On the lower left side is an inset for Bayfield and the Apostle Islands.
Photograph

Photographer's Son in Boat

Date: 
Description: Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman".
Map or Atlas

Perspective Map of Beloit

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the...
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...
Map or Atlas

Wauwatosa and the Western Suburbs of Milwaukee

Date: 1892
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...
Photograph

Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
Print

Civil War Regiment

Date: 1862
Description: Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno...
Photograph

A Traveler of Country Roads

Date: 1984
Description: Dog running on country road in DeKalb County in the summer.
Photograph

Lone Tree South of Town

Date: 1984
Description: Lone tree on country roadside in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Grain Elevator

Date: 1984
Description: Grain Elevator in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Mailboxes

Date: 1992
Description: Mailboxes and farm on Waterman Road in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Farm Road

Date: 1993
Description: Snow-covered Farm Road, south of Kingston, in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Train Speeding through Town

Date: 1994
Description: Train on the railroad tracks through town.
Photograph

Destruction of Old Post Office Building

Date: 1995
Description: Destruction of the old post office building.
Photograph

Road at the Old Place

Date: 2001
Description: Road at the Old Place on the Quinney farm.
Photograph

North of the Farmhouse

Date: 2001
Description: Landscape view from the country road north of the Quinney farm.
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

Hmong Trio of Children

Date: 2004
Description: Portrait of three Hmong children.
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

South Lancaster Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: This store, which was originally built in 1840 (and rebuilt after an 1877 fire) was bought in 1891, by Samuel Kerr who continued to sell sugar, flour, mola...

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