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Town of Moscow From Cornfield

Date: 1875
Description: View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ...
Photograph

Flour and Grist Mill

Date: 1896
Description: Flour and grist mill built on Green Lake Prairie and later moved to Alto. It stood about 50 feet tall and 24 feet wide.
Photograph

Rockdale Mill

Date: 1885
Description: View of the Rockdale mill, a grist and sawmill built in 1847 by Thomas and Nathan Van Horn. A group of people are standing on a sidewalk or loading dock on...
Photograph

Grist Mill

Date: 1872
Description: Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill.
Photograph

Hull Mill

Date: 1880
Description: View across water towards the Hull mill (right), showing Merlin Hull's ancestral home at left.
Drawing

Farwell's Madison Mills

Date: 1853
Description: Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Rock River at Watertown

Date: 1860
Description: View of the Rock River with a train on a railroad bridge in the foreground, and the town in the distance. Pedestrians are walking along a path on the left ...
Print

Mill, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Exterior view of a mill, with several figures and horse-drawn vehicles located around it. Caption reads: "Sauk City Mills."
Photograph

Munger's Mill and Dam

Date: 1895
Description: Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam.
Photograph

Mill on Yahara River

Date: 1890
Description: View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi...
Photograph

Men with Oxen at Mill

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men are standing with three or four teams of oxen pulling wagons at what appears to be a mill. Several buildings and a chute are in the backgrou...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1835
Description: Ink on tracing paper map of Green Bay, Wisconsin and nearby areas, Lake Winnebago, Fox and Wolf Rivers, and the junctions of the Mississippi and Wisconsin ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Grant County : Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1842
Description: Relief shown by hachures. Shows furnaces, saw mills, houses, roads, grist mills, entries, reservations, and diggings. "Compiled by order of the Board of C...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, Embracing a Great Part of Iowa and Illinois and the Whole Mineral Region : With a Chart of the Lakes : Exhibiting the Sections, the Geological Formations, and the General Topography

Date: 1858
Description: This map of Wisconsin and Minnesota shows proposed railroads, copper mines, marshes, villages, mills, reefs, notes about shorelines, and references to mini...
Print

Geneva Lake Flouring Custom Mills

Date: 1873
Description: A print depicts activity around the three-story, wood frame Geneva Flouring Mills. Horse-drawn wagons, pedestrians, and a boy rolling a hoop create a busy ...
Photograph

Cereal Mills Company

Date: 1898
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Cereal Mills Company. Men are working near a horse-drawn wagon near an entrance to a grain elevator in the lower right. Railr...
Photograph

Yahara River Mill

Date: 1850
Description: A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of River Falls

Date: 1884
Description: Page one of a Sanborn map of River Falls, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Juneau

Date: 1897
Description: A Sanborn map of Juneau.

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