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Aultman, Miller and Company Advertising Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit...
Postcard

Main Street, Looking East

Date: 1890
Description: Main Street, looking east at storefronts. Booths with flags and bunting are set up on the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Green Bay, Wis. Main Street, Looking Ea...
Photograph

West Mifflin Street on Capitol Square

Date: 08 1897
Description: View looking east on West Mifflin Street from its intersection with North Carroll Street on the Capitol Square. Businesses from right to left: City Hall; ...
Photograph

Thomas B. Jeffery

Date: 1897
Description: Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th...
Photograph

Elevated View of Lumbertown Street

Date: 1897
Description: Lumbertown Street (Now Highway 47). There are horse-drawn carts and a car. Sailors burned down Lumbertown in 1897. It was later built up as a resort town....
Photograph

Man with Experimental Automobile

Date: 1892
Description: George Ellis is standing beside an experimental automobile, possibly in the basement of John F. Steward. Both men worked for the Deering Harvester Company ...
Photograph

Broadway Street

Date: 1895
Description: A man walks across the unpaved street in the Broadway Street business district, with automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles along the curb. There is a hill i...
Photograph

The Seaside Inn

Date: 1898
Description: Exterior view of the Seaside Inn. Automobiles are parked on the streets alongside the hotel and individuals sit on benches and walk nearby.
Photograph

Carhart Automobile

Date: 1873
Description: Automobile made by J. Wesley Carhart, Methodist minister of Racine, later of Oshkosh, Maryland and Texas. The vehicle was dismantled and the engine used to...
Photograph

F.A. Averbeck Co and Cronin's Restaurant

Date: 1890
Description: View across street towards the F.A. Averbeck Company, a jewelry and clock shop, and Cronin's Restaurant, on the corner of Main and South Pinckney Streets. ...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1851
Description: Elevated view of a central street lined with businesses. Automobiles are parked at the curbs. There is a large building with columns on the left near an op...

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