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Drawing

Strang or Mormon House in Burlington

Date: 1850
Description: Strang House, also called "Mormon House," where "King" Strang lived and died, and where he published the Voree Herald.
Photograph

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...
Drawing

Wooden Well in Dekorra

Date: 1850
Description: Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well.
Photograph

Hawks Tavern

Date: 1850
Description: Angled front view of front and left side of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn.
Photograph

First Methodist Church, First Building

Date: 1850
Description: Elevated view from hill of the First Methodist Church.
Drawing

Lutheran Church

Date: 1850
Description: View of the first Norwegian Church built in Gjerpen, organized October 4, 1850. Gjerpen was one of the earliest Norwegian settlements in Wisconsin
Photograph

Harbor and Docks

Date: 1850
Description: Elevated view of the Green Bay harbor and docks.
Drawing

Old North Pier Landing

Date: 1850
Description: An illustration of the Old North Pier landing on Huron Street, drawn from memory.
Drawing

Second Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1850
Description: Illustration of the second Wisconsin State Capitol, which was the first one in Madison.
Print

Carroll College

Date: 1850
Description: View of Carroll College.
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper Handbill

Date: 1850
Description: Broadside advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by the company then known as C.H. McCormick & Co. D.W. Brown of Ashland, Ohio was t...
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper

Date: 1850
Description: Broadside advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by what was then known as C.H. McCormick & Co. Features an illustration of the reape...
Print

McCormick Reaper Directions

Date: 1850
Description: Handbill containing directions for putting together and operating McCormick's reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Headline over illustration of t...
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper

Date: 1850
Description: Handbill or broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Features a small illustration of the machine followed by warnings to other manufactu...
Painting

Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin River, Wisconsin

Date: 1850
Description: Buildings along Wisconsin River.
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 1850
Description: Body of water body in foreground with boaters, buildings on shore in background.
Map or Atlas

Racine & Mississippi Railroad and its connections

Date: 1850
Description: [... through northern United States from New York to Minnesota]. Lithography by T. Sinclair. From Perrault papers, Lucien S. Hanks, donor.
Postcard

New Glarus

Date: 1850
Description: New Glarus from an early lithograph. Caption reads: "A Swiss contribution to American culture, New Glarus, Wis., founded in 1845 by Swiss settlers and stil...
Painting

The Post-Mistress

Date: 1850
Description: Two post office employees look on as a third looks into an envelope.
Print

Hobart Church

Date: 1850
Description: Hobart church, built in 1839.

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