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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee from Bay View.
Photograph

Corner of Broadway and Wisconsin Streets

Date: 1886
Description: Elevated view taken from the Miller Building, which is the original site of the old Milwaukee House. In the center of the foreground is what used to be ca...
Postcard

Exposition Building

Date: 1886
Description: Print advertising the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition. View of building with flags flying from almost every peak on the the roof. Pedestrians and horse-dra...
Photograph

Nunnenmacher's Grand Opera House

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph. Located on Oneida Street, the opera house is three stories tall, and located across the street from a pharmacy (the Rx sign is hanging above t...
Photograph

Early P&H Machine Shop

Date: 1886
Description: Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon...
Photograph

Nunnenmacher's Grand Opera House - Anaglyph

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph. Located on Oneida Street, the opera house is three stories tall, and located across the street from a pharmacy (the Rx sign is hanging above t...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee County and Plans of Pewaukee, Oconomowoc, Soldiers' Home, Wauwatosa, Waukesha

Date: 1886
Description: A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Counties of Milwaukee and Waukesha Wisconsin

Date: 1886
Description: Map shows townships, post offices, roads, railroads, and selected buildings. The sections are in pink, green, blue, and yellow. Counties, towns, and lakes ...

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