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South Twelfth Street, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: Elevated view of South Twelfth Street. There is a child standing in the center of the street holding onto a wagon in which another child is sitting. A chur...
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Soldier's Monument in Fountain Park

Date: 1906
Description: Soldiers' Monument in Fountain Park.
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Mission House, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: View from road towards a mission house, erected between 1862 and 1873.
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Gottshalk's First Meat Market

Date: 1863
Description: Exterior view of M. Gottshalk's first meat market.
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Reiss Oil Company

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Description: Reiss Oil Company yard, with large tank, at the end of East Water Street.
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The Traveling Salesman

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Description: A traveling salesman, dressed in a suit and light hat, stands beside his carriage. A case of perfume and remedy wares sits near his feet. The small carriag...
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Chickens on the Farm

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Description: A very happy grandmother stands in the farmyard with a granddaughter, a cow and many chickens. In the background is the farmhouse.
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Cutting Logs into Chunks

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Description: A group of men are working on sawing logs into smaller pieces. In the foreground, an unidentified man is holding a large piece of tree trunk.
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Three Men Having Lunch

Date: 1921
Description: Three men sitting on the ground next to a horse-drawn wagon are having lunch. Two of them have jugs; one is holding a cup. All three are wearing work cloth...
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Making Barrel Staves

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Description: Behind a barbed wire fence a man is splitting log rounds into barrel staves. The staves are stacked neatly to dry.
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Hole for Silo

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Description: The hole for the new silo on the William Fiebelkorn farm. A pole marks the center. There is a barn on the left with a stone foundation. In the background a...
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Group Looking at Pigs

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Description: Three young women, one of them holding child on the fence, line up along the opposite side of a fence to look at a herd of pigs. They are all smiling. On t...
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William Fiebelkorn and his Wife Fredericke

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Description: Two horse-drawn sleighs are parked in the snow in front of a house. In the first one on the left, William Fiebelkorn Sr. and his wife Fredericke (Krause) s...
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Family Posed in Car

Date: 1914
Description: Anna Fiebelkorn is in the back seat of the car with another woman and two toddlers. William Fiebelkorn is driving the touring car. A small boy is sitting i...
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The William Fiebelkorn Farm

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Description: William Fiebelkorn and his wife Anna stand at a fence on their farm. William is holding a toddler. The house, the barn, several outbuildings and a windmill...
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Smelt Rigging

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards a boy using a single paddle to propel a small rowboat on the Sheboygan River. There are five rigs set up along the sho...
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TD-24 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "MW." Information with photograph reads: "International TD-24 Tractor with B-E S-152 scraper putting in new ...
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Vollrath Bowl

Date: 07 18 1938
Description: Text on front reads: "Vollrath Bowl, Sheboygan, Wis." The land was donated in 1917 by the Vollrath heirs and the construction of the Vollrath Park Zoo was ...

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