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| Description: | Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma... |
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| Description: | A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt... |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber's first extensive excursion in Wisconsin was a walking tour from Madison to Prairie du Sac along the Wisconsin River. He lost his way along Lake... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill. |
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| Description: | An ambrotype of Wonewoc, Wisconsin. Fences and buildings are in the foreground, with a tree-lined bluff behind. |
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| Description: | An ambrotype of Wonewoc. A road and fence is in the foreground, with houses beyond. A tree-lined hill is in the background. |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of the Jacob Miller home. |
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| Description: | View of a Presbyterian church with a horse-drawn vehicle and multiple pedestrians in the foreground. Caption reads: "Presbyterian Church, Barnstable Street... |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features illustrations of the machine in use in the field and alone. ... |
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| Description: | This map is hand-colored and mounted on cloth and shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, landownership, streets, railroads, selected buildings, fair g... |
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| Description: | Engraved print of four men and a dog in a boat on Lake Winnebago. Two of the men are in the center of the boat holding hunting rifles, while one man is sta... |
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