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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1854
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a...
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Landscape View with River and Riverboat

Date: 1858
Description: Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill.
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Across Bridge in Wauwatosa

Date: 1870
Description: An advertisement featuring Wauwatosa, showing the First Baptist Church, on the left, built in 1854 and the First Congregational Church, on the right built ...
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Prison for Confederate Soldiers at Rock Island

Date: 1864
Description: Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island.
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Rush Street Bridge, Chicago

Date: 1930
Description: Color illustration of the Rush Street Bridge and Chicago River as it appeared in 1861. Includes the C.H. McCormick Reaper Works on the far side of the rive...
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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...
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Building Intercounty Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. International trucks are used during the construction of an inter-county bridge between Columbi...
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Lincoln Highway Construction

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. International trucks are used on a construction site during the building of the George Westingh...
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South Bend Chilled Plow Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using the plow in a field with a team of two horses.
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Bridge at Black Point

Date: 1900
Description: A boy holding a dog stands behind a rustic railing on a bridge over a man-made cut in a hill at Black Point. A girl and dog stand on the trail below. Bould...

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