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Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large...
Print

Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Delavan

Date: 1884
Description: Bird's-eye map of Delavan with inset of the State Institute for Deaf and Dumb.
Book or Pamphlet

Artesian Stock Farm

Date: 1884
Description: Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ...
Photograph

Portage Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background.
Photograph

Soldier's Monument

Date: 1884
Description: Proposed Soldier's Monument illustration (erected in 1884) printed on a certificate of membership to the Racine Soldiers Monument Association.
Print

Ashland, Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands

Date: 1884
Description: Panorama bird's-eye view of the town of Ashland, on Lake Superior, and the Apostle Islands.
Photograph

Hawks Tavern

Date: 1884
Description: Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with men on the porch and trees in the yard on each side.
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 1884
Description: View of buildings in Delafield, with two men and a dog standing near a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

Meggett Building on Barstow

Date: 1884
Description: Stereograph of three-story brick building on a dirt road.
Photograph

Barstow Street and the Meggett Building

Date: 1884
Description: Stereograph view with the Meggett building on the right hand side, and another building along the left hand side. A church's steeple is visible behind the ...
Photograph

Meggett Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Meggett residence at the corner of Jones and River Streets.
Photograph

Josiah Monroe May

Date: 1884
Description: A carte-de-visite of Josiah Monroe May in a wagon, at the age of about 60 years.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Clinton

Date: 1884
Description: Like many early settlements of southeastern Wisconsin, Clinton was founded in 1836 by Yankees--immigrants from New England and New York.
Photograph

Joseph Rumenopp's Hardware Store

Date: 1884
Description: The hardware store opened and run by Joseph Rumenopp located on the corner of Central Avenue and East Second Street. The store was later sold to J.J. Willi...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of City of Menasha

Date: 1884
Description: Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map for city of Menasha.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of City of Menasha

Date: 1884
Description: Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map for city of Menasha.
Photograph

St. Mary's Church

Date: 1884
Description: A distant view of St. Mary's Church. Looking north from the corner of Main and Franklin Streets.
Photograph

Dr. James A. Jackson Sr. Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Dr. James A. Jackson residence, 123 North Pinckney Street. Dr. Jackson is standing by the fence; his wife Sydonia Jackson is in the center, lower window, a...
Photograph

Matthias Stein Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,...

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