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Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of the exterior of the Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets. There is a church building in the background on the left.
Photograph

Layton House

Date: 1880
Description: 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style...
Drawing

View of College Hill in Madison

Date: 1885
Description: A view of what is now known as Bascom Hill including Main Hall (Bascom Hall), North Hall, Music Hall, Science Hall, South Hall, Washburn Observatory and Wo...
Photograph

La Crosse Railroad Bridge

Date: 1880
Description: Construction of a railroad bridge on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad line. A set of railroad tracks is in the foreground, running along the s...
Photograph

Kimball and Lowell Hardware Store

Date: 1887
Description: The Kimball and Lowell Hardware Store located on the corner of Franklin and Milwaukee Streets.
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Utly Residence

Date: 1887
Description: The Utly Residence, surrounded by a fence, on the north-east corner of Wisconsin and 8th Streets. Built by E.R. Cooley. A man is standing in the center nea...
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Main Street

Date: 1888
Description: Looking north on Main Street, from the Square, Manufacturer's National Bank at 440 Main Street.
Print

Edward P. Allis & Company's Reliance Works and Bay State Works

Date: 1883
Description: Etched print of factory with inset of Bay State Works in lower right corner. Lake with ships in background, with busy, buggy covered roads in foreground. ...
Print

Bijou Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Souvenir Booklet made for the opening night of August 19, 1889. Half of the image is the opera house, and the other half is a brief summary and descriptio...
Drawing

Building on Street Corner

Date: 09 01 1885
Description: Pencil on paper; Elevated view of building on street corner with horse-drawn delivery wagon in front. Tall trees line the two streets. Building is two st...
Photograph

Chamber of Commerce

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph view of Chamber of Commerce at Broad and Michigan Streets. The building is the center of the image, with a telephone pole to the right, a larg...
Photograph

Iron Mine

Date: 08 1880
Description: Men working in an iron mine.
Photograph

Kleinsteuber Machine Shop

Date: 1880
Description: It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th...
Photograph

T.G. Mandt Carriage Factory

Date: 1880
Description: Slightly elevated exterior view of T.G. Mandt Wagons & Carriages. Several of the men are standing near or leaning on one of the many carriages displayed ar...
Photograph

Man in Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1885
Description: Winter scene with a European American man with a beard and moustache sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse on snow-covered ground in front of the C....
Photograph

Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of G.A.R.

Date: 1884
Description: Elevated view of the Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of Grand Army of the Republic in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1884.
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Ramsay & Jones Mill

Date: 1887
Description: The Ramsay & Jones Mill with logs in the water in the foreground.
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Ramsay & Jones Mill Yard

Date: 1887
Description: Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill.
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Chamber of Commerce - Anaglyph

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph view of Chamber of Commerce at Broad and Michigan Streets. The building is the center of the image, with a telephone pole to the right, a larg...
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View of a Blacksmith Shop

Date: 1880
Description: John Parman's “Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage” shop, with workmen and others posed with vehicles in front.

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