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Lakeside Stairway

Date: 1898
Description: Lakeside entrance exterior stairway of an elaborate residence at Lake Geneva.
Photograph

Interior of Lumber Mill Office

Date: 1898
Description: Interior of the Knapp, Stout & Co. lumber mill office with posed members of the staff. On the desk in the center of the room is a device with an earpiece h...
Map or Atlas

City of Superior Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: This map of Superior shows city wards, bays, docks, and some businesses and points of interest. Relief is shown by hachures. The map probably came from a C...
Map or Atlas

New Sectional Map of Duluth Superior and Vicinity

Date: 1898
Description: This map of Duluth and Superior show lands that "will be for sale soon" in portions of Douglas County, Wisconsin and Saint Louis County, Minnesota. The map...
Photograph

Portrait of a Seated Woman

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor portrait of Rose Loomis, of Sullivan, Ohio, wearing a dress and seated in a rocking chair in a garden.
Map or Atlas

Waupun Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: This is a map of Waupun in 1898 that shows labeled streets, railroads, and the location of the state prison. There are annotations on the map in what appea...
Photograph

Woman in Front of a Mirror

Date: 1898
Description: Unidentified woman posed sitting in front of a dressing table with a tall mirror. She is wearing eyeglasses, a hat with feathers, and a long coat with what...
Photograph

Railroad Men in their Office

Date: 1898
Description: Men in a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad station.
Photograph

Side View of Lake House

Date: 1898
Description: Side porte-cochere of a residence.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Hurley

Date: 1898
Description: Sanborn map of Hurley featuring the Village of Gile.
Photograph

View of a Farm

Date: 1898
Description: View from field of farm with a wide view of the surrounding landscape.
Photograph

Semi-Centennial Arch

Date: 1898
Description: Decorated arch erected on State Street as part of the Semi-Centennial celebration of statehood. The arch bears a representation of Commodore Dewey's victor...
Photograph

Crowd at Carnival

Date: 1898
Description: Crowd scene and circus barker in front of “The Electric Era Shows” tent, probably at a fair or carnival. A smaller tent in the background on the left has a...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Buckeye catalog cover for harvesting machinery featuring an illustration of a buckeye tree with nuts in the grass below. Text on bottom left reads: "Ohio, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Back cover with a color illustration of a man using a Buckeye binder in a field drawn by a team of two horses. On the left a woman wearing a dress and apro...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Catalog cover with framed headline: "Forty Harvest Seasons 1858-1898." Features a styled design of stalks of wheat, poppy flowers, and a sickle.
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Drill Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Catalog cover with an illustration behind the company name of a stylized dragon dangling a chain with a disc that reads: "49th Year." The dates 1849 and 18...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Foldout Card — Inside

Date: 1898
Description: Inside of foldout card, featuring four color scenes. The top is for steel plows, corn cultivators, disk harrows and spring tooth cultivators with an illust...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a Light Running Plano in a field with two horses. Around the border are illustrations of types of le...
Photograph

View of Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin Upper Campus

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view looking west towards Washburn Observatory and the surrounding area in the distance. Two windmills are behind the observatory, and Lake Mendot...

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