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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Octagon House with a horse and carriage in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Illustrated view of Superior, as well as Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, and Winnipeg. Caption reads: "Superior - The Last Possible Great Marine City in the ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Collage of images featuring a view of the Nicollet House, a view down a main street, and portrait photographs of O.K. Hall, James Kane, and August Zachau. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake before a fire on December 3, 1889 which swept Main Street and destroyed more than twenty business places. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake looking towards the sawmills. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The George A. Whiting Paper Mills with men posing on switcher engines in front of the buildings. The engines are, (left to right): Chicago and Northwestern... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View looking up river towards the Kinnickinnic Falls. A bridge is above the falls. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of a street scene featuring people standing on a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground, and a restaurant in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from tower of the Racine Court House looking north. A note at bottom center on the building of a roof reads, in part: "1st. Presby. Church. 1... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards a Presbyterian parsonage. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the J.H. Kelley house. The home was located at the Northwest corner of Wisconsin Avenue and 8th Street, which is now the Southeast... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the home of M. Happ, with a horse-drawn wagon parked along the curb, and a man and woman standing on the terrace. A sign next to the house... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Advertisement of the Hurlbut Manufacturing Company of Racine, the home of several wagon manufacturing firms during the 19th Century. Hurlbut began manufac... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Park Hotel, with city traffic in the streets in the foreground. "'Park Hotel' South Corner Capitol Park." The reverse side gives a des... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | From the cover of a descriptive brochure in the Historical Society's Library pamphlet collection, this drawing depicts the large hotel grounds on Lake Mono... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Chamber of Commerce at Broad and Michigan Streets. The building is the center of the image, with a telephone pole to the right, a larg... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from street of courthouse on street corner. |
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