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Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of the central business district looking down middle of street. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the curbs. On ...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: View down middle of street in the central business district. A drugstore is on the corner on the left and a hotel on the right corner. Horses and wagons ar...
Postcard

Al. Ringling Theatre

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the theater. There are posters in front of the entrance. A current attraction is George Fawcett in "The Frame...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Women with a Dressmaker's Dummy

Date: 1915
Description: Posed group of six women with a dressmaker's dummy.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Boy and Girl

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a boy and girl, probably brother and sister.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Young Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking.
Photograph

Wisconsin Telephone Co. Installation Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company horse-drawn service and installation wagon in front of the Telephone Building. Two men sit in the wagon. A man stands in the do...
Photograph

Chief Clancy in an Open Car

Date: 1915
Description: Chief Thomas A. Clancy of the Milwaukee, Wis. Fire Department, with others, posed in an open touring car, as though for a parade.
Postcard

Curtiss Flying Boat at Trout Lake

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate...
Photograph

Interior of Bowar Bros. Garage

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view of the Bowar Bros. Garage. On two walls are banks of drawers and cubby holes for tools and parts. On the right are more shelves for tools. Am...
Book or Pamphlet

United Refrigerator & Ice Machine Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover featuring ten inset color illustrations of refrigerating machinery, refrigerators and store fixtures in use in the home and in shops.
Photograph

Panorama of Railroad Shipping Area

Date: 1915
Description: Panoramic elevated view of railroad shipping area near factory buildings, a water tower, and a smokestack.
Print

Testing of the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1915
Description: Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr...
Map or Atlas

Douglas County, Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: This map shows roads, railroads, street railways, abandoned logging railroads, rural mail routes, telephone lines, schools, platted land, and state forest ...
Photograph

State Street in Winter

Date: 1915
Description: View across snowy street towards the 200 block of State Street, the north side. On the corner at number 235 is the Badger Cigar Pipes and Tobacco store. Mo...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Sid's Family

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of Sid's family: Severt and his mother (?), with Sid in the center, and his younger sister Bernice on the woman's lap.
Postcard

View of the Shore

Date: 1915
Description: View of Ephraim from the bay, with a pier in the foreground. Churches are on the left and right, and the Hillside Hotel is in the center near the shore. Ca...
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Hotel

Date: 1915
Description: A view across water towards the Lake Geneva Hotel, also called Hotel Geneva. There are several boats and piers at the water's edge. Two men are boating in ...
Book or Pamphlet

Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: A view down Main Street looking east from the Y.M.C.A. building.

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