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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | This map shows ward boundaries, names of additions, streets, bridges, mills, schools, religious buildings, businesses, hotels, railroads, factories, brewer... |
| Date: | 06 1890 |
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| Description: | This map shows building use, railroads, tramways, lumber yards, roads, watchman’s stations, and steam pipes. Also included is text about buildings, Clapp a... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Sanborn map of Milwaukee, with the Milwaukee River on the left, and Water Street in the center. There are two iron draw bridges over the river. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows platted additions and subdivisions, ward boundaries, schools, churches, railroads, cemeteries, parks, businesses, factories, an... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across water towards where brothers John and August Lindstrom had a pop factory at 409 N. Blair Street during the 1870s and 1880s. They lived above th... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Engraving of original factory at Plano, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing Champion Reaper & Mower Works in Chicago, Illinois, where first Champion machine was built." |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Warder, Mitchell and Co., manufacturers of Champion Reapers and Mowers exclusively. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Plano Works in Plano, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Kirby Factory in Auburn, New York. On left side is the text: "A Machine Made Every 14 Minutes." Along the bottom are numbered explanatio... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A Sanborn map of St. Louis, which is six miles southwest of South Superior. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye view of Appleton Wisconsin. In the foreground are people fishing, strolling, and looking over the canal towards the Fox River. Streets and buildi... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The cover design of the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features a variety of flowers, and an inset view of the company's factory bui... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An advertisement in the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features corn and oats, and two circular insets, one of factories and fields,... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of an elevated view of the Pfister and Vogel Leather Company Menomonee Tannery in Milwaukee. A railroad runs along the side of the factory. Pleas... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View across Franklin Street of the Manitowoc Aluminum Novelty Company on the southwest corner of S. 15th and Franklin Streets. This very first picture of t... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Text at top reads: "Forty Harvest Seasons" with "13,852 Carloads in 12 months handled in the Great Deering Harvester Works." Includes an illustration of th... |
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