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Poster

Appleton Grinding Mill Advertising Poster

Date: 1892
Description: Advertising poster for "The Modern Hero 2 and 4 Horse Power and Grinding Mill." Produced by the Appleton Manufacturing Company of Appleton, Wisconsin; Minn...
Map or Atlas

The City of Chicago

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor.
Photograph

Old Home Building

Date: 1892
Description: Exterior of Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Map or Atlas

Continental View of World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Columbian Exposition pavilions from the vantage point of Lake Michigan. Included is an inset of the Union Passenger Station (now Uni...
Photograph

The Sauk Prairie

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the Sauk Prairie looking south. From the left are the photographer's brother, Frank Bass; Mrs. Edward (Ada Burlingame) Bass and her daughter, Eve...
Photograph

Everetta Bass with Two Girls

Date: 1892
Description: Everetta Bass (dressed in plaid), standing with two girls wearing capes and bonnets. The smallest of the girls is identified as Verta. There is a baby carr...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1892
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting on either side of a prop stone wall and prop wood fence. They are...
Photograph

Myles Standish Statue

Date: 1892
Description: Close-up of a statue of Captain Myles Standish, a military leader of the Plymouth Colony. Begun in 1892, the statue depicts Standish grasping his sword in...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Four Lakes Country

Date: 1892
Description: Topographical map of Madison and surrounding communities which include Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Waubesa and Lake Kegonsa. The red dots on the map sh...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Four Lakes Country, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
Description: This map oriented with north to the upper left shows railroads, creeks, post offices, smaller lakes, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Waubesa, ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Valley Land Company : Formerly W.V.R.R. Showing Lands in Marathon & Southern Part of Lincoln County Wisconsin Sold and for Sale

Date: 1892
Description: Map shows farms, schools, saw mills, townships, railroads, and roads. Counties are labelled and are outlined in yellow and pink. On the upper right and le...
Magazine or Periodical

Frank G. Lenz

Date: 1892
Description: Portrait of Frank Lenz on his safety bicycle which he rode on a round-the-world tour. He is posed on a country road lined with fences and telegraph or tele...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 1

Date: 1892
Description: First page of calendar for January and February, 1892. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on a stone wall watching a man using a Buckeye mower in ...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 3

Date: 1892
Description: Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine...
Photograph

George Thompson and Family

Date: 1892
Description: George "Uncle Riley" Thompson and his wife and children posing on their farm. The family are, from left to right: Bessie, mother Julia holding Rosie, Mamie...
Photograph

Carl Wilhelm Berg

Date: 1892
Description: Formal studio carte-de-visite in front of a painted backdrop of Carl Wilhelm Berg. He is dressed in the uniform of the Prussian Heavy Cavalry, his rank is ...
Photograph

North Lake

Date: 1892
Description: An elevated view of a gently rolling landscape with cows grazing in the middle distance. At right is a farmhouse and outbuildings. Young trees have been pl...

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