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Drawing of Cassville

Date: 1829
Description: Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats.
Photograph

John Geiger House

Date: 1895
Description: Geiger house, residence of John Geiger. His son, Ferdinand A. Geiger, was a Federal District Judge in Milwaukee from 1912 through the 1930s.
Photograph

Habermann Hotel and Buffet

Date: 1900
Description: View across dirt road of two businesses. On the left is a two-story brick building with large windows which are painted with signs that say: "Habermann Buf...
Photograph

Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
Photograph

Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View down middle of commercial street. There is a hotel/ice cream shop on the right. Cars are parked along the curb on both sides of the street.
Photograph

City Park

Date: 
Description: A pathway through a park. There is a playground on the right, and a boy is nearby on what appears to be a shoreline. A pavilion is beyond trees on the left...
Photograph

Laying 90 # Rail — Near Cassville, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of men working on the railroad near a farm field.
Photograph

Dewey Farmhouse

Date: 1910
Description: View of exterior of house with snow on the ground. There is a steep hill in the background. The house was built after Nelson Dewey's death.
Photograph

Amelia Street

Date: 1907
Description: View across unpaved street of several houses, with board sidewalks, fences and power lines. In the background is a bluff.
Photograph

Flood at Cassville

Date: 1910
Description: A view of flooding in a residential area. Two women are posing near a tree on the left.
Photograph

Parade through Downtown

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of parade with a band of clowns. One young boy dressed as a clown at the front is holding the American flag, and another clown holds a sign t...
Photograph

Automobile on a Snowy Road

Date: 1926
Description: Winter scene with a man in an automobile on a snowy road.
Photograph

Street Scene with Billboards

Date: 1920
Description: A man stands near the backs of billboards on the left along a street or alley. Power lines lead to the horizon, over what appear to be businesses or indust...
Photograph

Man with Horse and Buggy

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in front of barbed wire fence with an orchard behind him. He is holding a branch of leaves and what appears to be fruit. The horse and the bug...
Photograph

Automobile Stuck in the Snow

Date: 1928
Description: Winter scene with a plowed road and automobile stuck in a snowbank. There is a snowplow in the background.
Photograph

Prize Draft Horse

Date: 1910
Description: The horse, with a man holding him by a lead, is standing in a meadow with chickens and a fence in the background.
Photograph

Girl Posing on Horse

Date: 1910
Description: Girl wearing a dress posing on a horse in front of a house.
Photograph

Pigs in a Pig-Pen

Date: 1910
Description: Three pigs waiting to be fed. There are farm implements, barrels, farm buildings and the lower section of what is probably a windmill in the background.
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...

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