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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Map or Atlas

Voyages Of Samuel de Champlain

Date: 1632
Description: The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ...
Postcard

Toll Bridge

Date: 1920
Description: View of two automobiles crossing a toll bridge. There are cherries on branches at the top of the postcard. Caption reads: "In Door County 'Cherryland,' The...
Poster

Canton Works Illustration

Date: 1919
Description: Chart or sign illustrating the "New Plow Works of the International Harvester Co. Canton, Illinois." The middle of the poster features an article titled "H...
Photograph

IH World's Fair Building

Date: 01 09 1933
Description: Bird's eye view of International Harvester's exhibit building at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair in Chicago. The shore of Lake Michigan is on the ...
Print

Oshkosh Packing & Provision Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w...
Print

William Rahr Sons' Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the William Rahr Sons' Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, "Maltsters and Roasters," with an elevated view of the company building on one side o...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the locations of cities and towns, counties, railway lines, the steamship lines in Lake Superior and lake Michigan....
Map or Atlas

Farmer's Rail Road & Township Map of Wisconsin and Chart of the Lakes

Date: 1872
Description: This map, which includes eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and a portion of Michigan's Upper peninsula, shows the township survey grid and identifies countie...
Photograph

Picking Berries

Date: 1925
Description: Two young men pick berries in a field on a hill near Juddville. Chambers Island is seen on the horizon of the Green Bay.
Photograph

Abandoned Farm

Date: 1921
Description: View across snowy field of a shingled house, barn and other outbuildings standing empty near the shore of Lake Michigan at Newport Village.
Map or Atlas

Map of Creameries and Cheese Factories in Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: A commercial map of Wisconsin showing the location of creameries and cheese factories in the state. In the lower portion of the map provides the number of ...
Photograph

Europe Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view over northern Door County, looking northeast across Europe Lake and Europe Bay toward Plum and Washington Islands. Farm fields and orchards con...
Photograph

Pier at Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek Harbor as a boat approaches the pier and warehouse. In the foreground are houses with outbuildings, gardens and a small orchard...
Photograph

Lakeside House on Green Bay

Date: 1909
Description: Scene near what may be Coleman, perhaps on the shore of Green Bay on Lake Michigan. View through tall grass towards a man standing next to an automobile lo...
Print

Chalet on the Lake Menu

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Description: One-page menu for Chalet on the Lake, with a colored pen-and-ink still life of a vase of flowers and greenery on a table set with bottles of wine, wine gla...
Photograph

Ship, Bovine and a Man on a Horse

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Description: Composite photograph in the "Tall Tale" style. An enormous bovine stands on the front deck of the Pere Marquette 21, a steamer. On the right, on the...
Postcard

Door County Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: Envelope cover. Inside are eighteen color enhanced photographic scenes from Door County, Wisconsin, including a short description of Door County features t...
Photograph

Sturgeon Bay

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Description: Aerial view of harbors and bridge. Farm fields are on either side of the bridge. The city of Sturgeon Bay is in the distance. There are docks along the sho...

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