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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Collage of images featuring a view of the Nicollet House, a view down a main street, and portrait photographs of O.K. Hall, James Kane, and August Zachau. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. On the left a man is driving a wagon with a team of two horses, and on the right a man stands on a wagon pulled by one horse. Houses... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View of Manitowoc from the north side. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls and hat... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrants, wearing Polish national dress, with a wagon in Market Square. Other men in the square are wearing suits, long coats, and hats. The women... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls, hats a... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake before a fire on December 3, 1889 which swept Main Street and destroyed more than twenty business places. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of City Square, where the Bank of Menasha is seen on the corner and Little Lake Butte des Mortes is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Main Street looking east toward the Fox River and the boat landing. Lake Winnebago is in the distance. |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Several people are standing on a large snow bank on 8th Street, looking north after the big snowstorm of 1881. Signs hanging over the sidewalk attached to ... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a commercial street after the "big snow" of 1881, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of Sheboygan after a heavy snowfall. Mr. Henry C. Mueller can be seen on the top of the three-story building which he built in 1871. Many peop... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of unpaved Water Street, featuring a group of patrons standing in the entrance of A. Becker's Saloon. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Main Street from Pinckney Street. A sign on the top of the building reads: "Solders' Record Office." |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated stereograph view of the business district, with the spire of the Congregational Church in the foreground. |
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