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Book or Pamphlet

German Wisconsin Pamphlet Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of a 31-page pamphlet promoting Wisconsin to German immigrants, which translates to read "Wisconsin. An Account of the Population, soil, climate, Com...
Photograph

Emil Wallber House

Date: 1868
Description: Exterior view of the Emil Wallber house with four people standing near the entrance. Wallber was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. The location of the...
Photograph

Commercial Area near Lake Michigan

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The...
Book or Pamphlet

German Immigration Brochure Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of a brochure in German for Wisconsin immigration.
Photograph

Main and Carroll Streets Intersection — Anaglyph

Date: 1868
Description: View of the intersection of Main and Carroll Streets in Madison, showing the home of Nathaniel Dean (where the Inn on the Park Hotel is now located), and S...
Map or Atlas

Burlington Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway and its Connections

Date: 1868
Description: Wisconsin and parts of Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. It shows cities and towns, drainage, administrative boundaries and the railroad network with...
Photograph

Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
Map or Atlas

Green Bay & Miss. Canal : for Steamboat Navigation, Locks 160 x 35 Ft

Date: 1868
Description: This map includes a table of estimated costs "by Brev. Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren Maj. U.S.E., of improvement of Wis. River from his survey of 1867." Included a...
Photograph

Ceylon Childs Lincoln

Date: 1868
Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon Childs Lincoln. Full-length seated pose facing 45 degrees to the right, with left arm on cloth covered table and ...
Photograph

Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
Photograph

Willie Gowdy and Edward Alsworth Ross

Date: 1868
Description: Oval-framed portrait of two children, identified as Willie Gowdy (left) and Edward Alsworth Ross (right). Willie Gowdy was Edward's half-brother.

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