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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hofmann and three sons had emigrated in 1848 from the Rhine region to northern Wisconsin. Initially they had no neighbors for a distance of four to five ho... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Mr. Klaner, who had just come from Elberfeld to Canada in 1858, purchased this farm and worked it with his wife and children. Initially they were plagued b... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Departing from Lake Winnebago, Hölzlhuber boarded the Plymouth, a high, narrow steamboat that was built specially for navigating the narrow and some... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | In September 1859, by which time he was a regular contributor to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, Hölzlhuber took his first extensive trip to lower... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This house was located among the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. Here Hölzlhuber and his companions took shelter in an uncomfortable stable one night, after an ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | The maple and hickory forests in the old northwest were often plagued with fires during the summer months. Hölzlhuber, on a return journey from Niagara Fal... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber traveled on American railways frequently and marveled that they wouldn't have been accepted as usable in Europe. This sketch of the tunnel on th... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | From Ottawa City Hölzlhuber took a two-day hike with a couple of lumber dealers, staying in an isolated cabin overnight. They met a group of surveyors the ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest.... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Due to rainy weather, Hölzlhuber stayed a night in the home of Heinrich Cordes, who had purchased his land from an Irishman and built "a pretty brick house... |
| Date: | 04 1860 |
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| Description: | Accompanying this sketch is Hölzlhuber's description of his last foray from Milwaukee before leaving America. "Before my return to Europe, D. Brandis, the ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber received a request from the German theater director Henry Börnstein in St. Louis, Missouri, to purchase his theater sets and music. Accordingly,... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber felt his most interesting experiences in America were his interactions with southern slavery. "My sketch here shows a negro family as I saw them... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Indian village, along a river, (in a painted reconstruction) during an Indian ceremony. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Levi B. Vilas built this house in 1853 at 521 North Henry Street on the corner of Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | House built by Julius T. Clark in 1859, which in 1878 became the home of William F. Vilas. |
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