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Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in...
Photograph

Boy Pushing Baby Buggy

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Description: Boy pushing baby buggy down Main Street, followed by a dog. Various storefronts are on the other side of the street, including the A. Meinhold Store and th...
Photograph

Man and Woman on Sidewalk

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Description: View from sidewalk of a horse-drawn buggy parked along the side of Main Street, looking southeast at First Street. An immigrant couple, possibly Norwegian,...
Photograph

Children's Carriage Factory

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Description: Children's carriages manufacturing plant. The factory was purchased about 1875 by A.D. Crocker and his brothers and converted to furniture manufacturing.
Photograph

National Exchange Bank

Date: 1894
Description: Also the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company building. Large building on the corner of National Avenue, with a sign for the National Exchange Bank p...
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Family in Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: Three young children are posing around a baby in a buggy in a farmyard. Large stacks of hay are in the background. Behind the children on the right a man i...
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Panoramic View of Manitowoc

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Description: Panoramic view of downtown at the intersection of 8th and Washington Streets. The Manitowoc County Courthouse is at the right. Residences and churches can ...
Postcard

Sporting Event Spectators

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Description: A group of spectators including men, women, and children standing at a railing watching some type of sporting event in a field where a large crowd is gathe...
Print

Stoughton Wagon Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Stoughton Wagon Company, a manufacturer of wagons, buggies, carriages, and oscillating bob sleighs, from Stoughton, Wisconsin, with an im...
Photograph

Railroad Depot

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Description: Exterior view of a railroad depot. Men and women gathered on and near the tracks to board trains. Published by Quillin Bros. Druggists.
Photograph

Blacksmith and Wagon Shop

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Description: View across street towards six men posing, with four of the men wearing aprons and work clothes, and two men in suits holding guns. Beside them on the left...
Photograph

People and Horses in Front of a House

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Description: Two young girls, a man and an infant are posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses wearing fly-nets. On the right a man and a woman are posi...
Photograph

Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Two women, a man, and a dog are standing next to a baby who is sitting in a baby carriage. The group is in front of a two-story frame house. On the far rig...
Photograph

Family in Front of House

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Description: Group portrait of people posing near a picket fence in front of a frame house. On the left is a single horse with a fly-net pulling a buggy. A man with a b...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 33-46

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Description: The Little Bluebirds — has anyone expressed it better
than Judy Garland singing
. . . why, oh why, can't I
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 674-683

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Description: Dearest Daughter,

The year is flown.
We can't compete and we stand alone
Photograph

Belgian Refugees on the Way Home

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees heading home after time in Dutch refugee camps.
Postcard

Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade

Date: 10 24 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade, Wausau, Wisconsin." Elevated view of a parade on a city street with street car tracks, near an u...

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