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Berniger Park, Pioneer Summer Resort

Date: 1900
Description: House with several trees, and a horse and cart on the road in front. Located on Pierce Street near the Falk Brewery. It is Unknown whether or not "Pioneer...
Postcard

P.H. Best Brewing Company

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Description: Southside Brewery, formerly the Melm's Brewery. A bridge, a boat, a river, several small buildings, and horse-drawn vehicles are in the foreground. Caption...
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

Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway Station

Date: 1900
Description: View of depot from the street. Taken about a block from the building, the image has a trolley, pedestrians, carriages, and signs for the Davison Theatre a...
Photograph

Exposition Building Ruins

Date: 1905
Description: Afermath of the fire of June 4, 1905. A chimney and some burnt out walls still stand. The area around the ruins is fenced off. The top of the building t...
Photograph

Iron Mine

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

Wisconsin Street

Date: 1895
Description: Stereograph of Wisconsin Street looking south from the corner of East Water Street.
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...
Postcard

Marquette College and Gesu Church

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of church with towers. Three horse-drawn carriages are parked in front. Caption reads: "Marquette College and Gesu Church, Milwaukee."
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Buggy

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Description: Right side profile view of a man sitting in a covered buggy that is pulled by a horse. Buildings are behind trees and bushes in the background.
Photograph

Two Women in Buggy

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Description: Two fashionably dressed women sit in a buggy that is pulled by a horse. The corner of a building is in the background on the right.
Photograph

Woman Driving Carriage

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Description: A woman drives a buggy that is pulled by a horse wearing a fly-net. The fly-net would be set on top of the horse's back and would shake with the horse's mo...
Photograph

Boy Leading Horse

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Description: A boy wearing a cap is leading a horse that is pulling a woman sitting in a buggy. A building is in the background on the left.
Photograph

Baby Sitting in Buggy

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Description: An infant sits in a buggy that is hitched to a horse wearing a fly-net. A house is in the background on the left.
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Woman and Child in Carriage

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Description: A woman and a young girl sit in a carriage that is pulled by a horse wearing a fly-net.
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Woman and Girl in Carriage

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Description: A woman and young girl sit in a carriage that is pulled by a horse. The corner of a building is on the right.
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Two Women in a Carriage

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Description: A young boy is standing with a colt near two women who are sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in front of a house.
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Colt and Horse

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Description: A single horse is hitched to an empty buggy while a colt nurses in front of a frame building, probably a stable.

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