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The Goetsch Sisters

Date: 1893
Description: The Goetsch sisters sit and stand in two rows on the family farm. They are wearing dark dresses. Names: (back row) Martha G. Buelke, unidentified, Lydia; (...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin : Showing all the Recent Improvements and all the New Additions up to Date

Date: 1893
Description: This map shows wards, railroads, street cars, streets, lot and block numbers, landownership, parks, hospitals, the Sheboygan River, and Lake Michigan. Ward...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee and Suburbs

Date: 1893
Description: This map covers west to Wauwatosa, north to North Milwaukee, and south to South Milwaukee and shows street railways, city limits, parks, roads, railroads, ...
Map or Atlas

Wright’s Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1893
Description: This map shows city wards, block numbers, parks, cemeteries, roads, railroads, selected buildings, and Lake Michigan. Also included are indexes to streets,...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Navigation Through East Neebish Rapids River St. Mary

Date: 1893
Description: This map shows the depths of the East Neebish Rapids and the different types of minerals that make up the floor bed. Islands and Canada West is labeled. No...
Photograph

The "Columbia" Steamboat at Bernard's Boat Landing

Date: 1893
Description: View down pier towards the "Columbia" steamboat at the boat landing. The shoreline is the the background. There are three or four people on the steamboat a...
Photograph

Nina Dousman

Date: 1893
Description: Nina Dousman, age 13, relaxes in a chair for a full-length, cabinet card sized, studio portrait. She has her fingers interlaced and is wearing a light-colo...
Photograph

Virginia Dousman

Date: 1893
Description: Full-length formal portrait of Virginia Dousman. She is wearing a light-colored, off-the-shoulder dress, with straps. Her hands are clasped. In the backgro...
Print

World's Columbian Exposition Tea Room Menu

Date: 1893
Description: One-page tea room menu from the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. At the top is an illustration of a gondolier steering a couple in a c...
Photograph

The Edgewood Villa Fire

Date: 1893
Description: Exterior view of the Edgewood Villa, built in 1854, which was bought by Governor C.C. (Cadwallader) Washburn in 1873. Later, the grounds and building becam...
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Edgewood Villa Fire

Date: 1893
Description: Group of people standing near two buildings which burned in 1893. In the center background is Edgewood Villa, a home purchased by Governor C.C. (Cadwallade...
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Eight People Dining

Date: 1893
Description: Stereograph of an interior group portrait of eight people sitting around a dining table. Identified as the B.G. Stieg family, the W. Dittberner family, Ann...
Photograph

Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe

Date: 1893
Description: Cabinet card of a pastel drawing, formal portrait, waist-up, of Edgar Allen Poe. The drawing was created by Oscar Halling, a little known Baltimore artist ...
Photograph

Hunter's Cabin Interior

Date: 1893
Description: The interior of a rustic hunter's cabin. There is a rifle propped up on a bench in the foreground. A man is reclining in a bunk, while another man is sitti...
Photograph

Ettina Mae Perry Franklin and Ida Belle Franklin

Date: 1893
Description: Formal quarter-length portrait of Ettina Mae Perry Franklin, and her daughter Ida Belle Franklin. Ettina was married to Jerome Francis Franklin Sr. Ida mar...
Photograph

Herbert Paul Brumder

Date: 1893
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Herbert Paul Brumder (1885-1967), the youngest child of George and Henriette Brandhorst Brumder. He is wearing a double breaste...
Photograph

Ho-o-den Palace

Date: 1893
Description: View across the lagoon to the Japanese Pavilion or Ho-o-den Palace on the Wooded Island at the World's Columbian Exposition.
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Pine Lake Bathhouse

Date: 1893
Description: A small bathhouse is standing among trees on the shore of Pine Lake on George Brumder's property. There is ornate fretwork in the gable ends. A sign on the...
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Parlor

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the parlor (foreground) and music room of the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. Both room...

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