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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion reaper and mower produced by Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly of Springfield, Ohio. |
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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: | View from the second story of the Salesianum, the residence of Dr. Salzmann. The view includes Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee shoreline, and some of the nume... |
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| Description: | A Catholic seminary since 1854, the Salesianum was built by Dr. Salzmann, a Catholic missionary from Munzbach in upper Austria. A two-hour walk from the ci... |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber located this farm at about three German miles from Stevens Point. The region's soil was quite fertile. A wooden dwelling house stood in the mids... |
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| Description: | On a very hot day in August 1858 Hölzlhuber visited the farm of Jack Smith, an Irishman who had immigrated to Canada eleven years previously with his wife ... |
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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... |
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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: | Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest.... |
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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: | 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 1858 map of Racine County, Wisconsin, shows land ownership and acreages, the township and range grid, towns, cities and villages, roads, railroads, sc... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large farm binding operation. Men are working in a field in the left foreground. Farm buildings and a farmhouse are across the road. |
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