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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The brewery was built by George Schweickhart after he came to the city in 1856. He purchased three acres of land on the then Watertown Plank road, now just... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; front of music hall along the road, with a horse and carriage team in front of the entrance. Buildings can also be seen in the left backgroun... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A composite drawing, including photographic portraits, depicting "Doc" Aubrey, newsboy of the Iron Brigade, delivering papers to the camp where other membe... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of Newhall House which was destroyed by fire in 1883. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; front of music hall along the road, with a horse and carriage team in front of the entrance. Buildings can also be seen in the left backgroun... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio wedding portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) and Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) in their wedding outfits. Ku... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her hair is pulled back, and she wears earrings, a white ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a cigar manufacturer. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of a full-length studio portrait of Mrs. Alexander Mitchell standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a floor-length dark-colore... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A halftone print copy of a photograph of George Brumder's 1873 three story brick building at 286-288 West Water Street. Brumder and his family lived on the... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph Adams, a roundhouse foreman and master mechanic for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway line. |
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