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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Photograph

Train Cars Decorated for University of Wisconsin Clubs

Date: 1896
Description: Young man posing on train tracks in front of two passenger cars decorated with banners for the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club.
Photograph

W.A. Oppel Grocery

Date: 1896
Description: Grocers standing in front of the W.A. Oppel Grocery located at 116 East Main Street. The five men are standing on the sidewalk among bine and crates displa...
Photograph

Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club on Train

Date: 1896
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o...
Print

Duncan's Coal Docks

Date: 1896
Description: View of W.E. Duncan's coal docks.
Photograph

City Hotel

Date: 1896
Description: Exterior view of the City Hotel with a group of people posed near its entrance.
Print

Republican Party Protecting the Working Man

Date: 1896
Description: A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man.
Book or Pamphlet

The Uses of the Cross

Date: 1896
Description: An illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of the evolution of uses of the cross, from a heathen phallic symbol to a Christian symbol...
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 3 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Winnebago, Calumet, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Brown, Kewaunee, and ...
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 4 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Iowa, Grant, and La Fayette.
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 6 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Wood, Portage, Waupaca, Washara, Juneau, and Adams.
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 9 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Taylor, Marathon, Lincoln, and Price.
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 925

Date: 1896
Description: Railroad employees pose with locomotive engine no. 925 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The engine has a long pilot, a large oil headlight, sm...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1896
Description: This map shows streets, wards, railroads, parks, cemeteries, and Lake Michigan. Also included are explanations and an index of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: This map shows railroad routes in red, blue, orange, brown, pink, green, and dotted, as well as lakes, rivers, and communities. The map includes a legend i...
Photograph

Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs

Date: 1896
Description: View across railroad tracks towards a group of glee, banjo and mandolin club members posing in front of a University of Wisconsin banner on the Chicago and...
Photograph

Germania Building

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated night view of the eight story Germania Building, which is illuminated with a multitude of individual electric light bulbs outlining the windows an...

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