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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The rear facade of a cheese house. A man is standing in the doorway of the loading dock next to a hand cart. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mineral Spring Brewery, located on 272 Shake Rag Street, erected in 1850 (currently 276 Shake Rag Street). A group of four men are posing outdoors on the r... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Jars of canned food are stored in the cellar of the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards Hartig's Brewery on the left. Caption reads: "Greetings from Watertown, Wis." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Empire Mill. Alongside the building are railroad cars at a loading dock. The signs on the mill read: "Globe", "Globe's Empire... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701... |
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| Description: | Chromolithographed advertising poster of the Herman Toser Co., of Milwaukee, importers of wines and liquors. The poster depicts a young Italian woman in tr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Chromolithographed card issued by the Woolson Spice Co. to present Christmas greetings to its customers. The card depicts children around a Christmas tree,... |
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| Description: | View across road towards E.C. Berner's Ice Cream Parlor, where the first ice cream sundae is said to have been made in 1881. A woman is standing behind the... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Melchoir House, which was a popular hostelry and brewery operated by Jacob Melchoir. It later became an Indian boarding house. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View of a Vincent Roy storage building, with a man standing to the right of the structure. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the Davidson Feed Mill near the Amnicon River. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of Sturgeon Bay with the Teweles & Brandeis flour mill across the water on the left. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | An artists rendition of the western view of the Thiensville mills from the local tavern. Caption reads: "West View of Thiensville Mills from the Tavern." |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl pose together as they take their bottles of milk at school. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the five-story tall mill erected at the outlet of the Yahara Creek by Leonard J. Farwell. This engraving appears in Statistics of Dane County,... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Madison Brewery operated from John Rodermund that appeared in the 1858 City Directory. |
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| Description: | Building thought to be a cheese factory, with workers and horse-drawn delivery wagons in the front. |
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| Description: | A postcard with the text "Greetings From Monroe, Wis.," as well as images including postcard views of Wisconsin's pioneer cheese maker Niklaus Gerber, a co... |
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