Date: | 1840 |
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Description: | Home of William Augustus Prentiss, built in 1836 and burned in 1845. Small two-story house. Four people are standing around the house. |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Broadway in Milwaukee. Home has many peaks on the roof, and the drive to the entrance is on the right. |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | Stereograph of the home of Charles Ray, 88 Prospect Street. |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | View of St. John's Catherdral with the original tower. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Emil Wallber house with four people standing near the entrance. Wallber was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. The location of the... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view from rooftops of what was known as Watertown Plank road, looking west from about North 35th Street. Several homes, and many open fields occup... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph. Elevated view looking roughly south, the foreground overlooks a residential neighborhood. On the far shoreline, smoke clouds spew out from lar... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Elevated view over residential area, with several churches in the background. |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a view over rooftops of a neighborhood near Lake Michigan. Shoreline can be seen in the background. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The... |
Date: | 1881 |
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Description: | Stereograph. Elevated view of rooftops on the west side, with St. Mary's Convent in the background. |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Stereograph of elevated view looking northwest from Exposition Building. There is a church on a street corner on the left, and the Best Brewing Company in ... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Women of various ages are surrounded by babies and young children, as well as chairs and cribs. Each woman is holding a baby. Cribs are hanging on chains f... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | A young girl wearing a coat and hat is standing on a scale that is chained to a post near a building. |
Date: | 07 03 1896 |
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Description: | Elevated view of waiters and customers in the Schlitz Palm Garden. The idea of the garden was borrowed from Germany where beer gardens were common. It open... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | A young girl, Helen Phillips, stands in a yard near a fence behind a wooden chair. She reaches though the decorative panels on the back of the chair and gr... |
Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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Description: | Syl playing with toy boats at a small pond at Reservoir Park. Other children and adults are around the pond which is on a hill. In the background below the... |
Date: | 05 28 1899 |
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Description: | View down gravel path towards Syl seated on a bench along the edge of a reservoir on a hill. There is a brick building, perhaps a pumphouse, built over the... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Elevated view from the top of the Pabst Building down East Wisconsin Avenue all the way to Milwaukee Bay and out to the horizon of Lake Michigan. One of th... |
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