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Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

Date: 1888
Description: Exterior of Schlitz Brewing Company with two men and a boy in suits and hats in the foreground.
Photograph

Layton House

Date: 1880
Description: 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style...
Photograph

Postmen

Date: 1880
Description: Group portrait of postmen from the Milwaukee Area.
Book or Pamphlet

Dennett Harvesting Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Book or Pamphlet

Beloit Harvester and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Beloit harvester and twine binder manufactured by the Parker-Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. The cover features...
Photograph

Milwaukee Railroad Employees

Date: 07 21 1884
Description: Group portrait of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway employees taken outside the railroad's Milwaukee shop. Most of the men appear to be blue collar wor...
Photograph

Milwaukee Panorama Artists

Date: 11 1887
Description: Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t...
Photograph

Lemuel Hull House

Date: 1887
Description: Built in 1840 by Lemuel Hull. William Singer was the mason. The basement was made by lowering the hill. There were originally only two stories. First ...
Photograph

Mason Street

Date: 1889
Description: Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a...
Photograph

Matthias Stein Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,...
Photograph

Early P&H Machine Shop

Date: 1886
Description: Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon...
Photograph

First Wisconsin Calvary Veterans

Date: 06 10 1880
Description: Elevated group portrait of the veterans of the First Wisconsin Calvary. They are standing in rows in the street. Horses with wagons are behind them, and a ...
Drawing

1880 Iron Brigade Reunion

Date: 1880
Description: A composite drawing, including photographic portraits, depicting "Doc" Aubrey, newsboy of the Iron Brigade, delivering papers to the camp where other membe...
Photograph

Veterans of Company I, 29th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1887
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the Veterans of Company I, 29th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at a Grand Army of the Republic reunion. Center group, standing, fr...
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 87

Date: 1885
Description: Several men pose with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #87, built by Schenectady Locomotive Works. This image was taken near Cherry Street.
Photograph

Hilda and Jack Johnston

Date: 1887
Description: Full-length cabinet card of two young children in front of a painted backdrop of the ocean. They are attired in coats, dresses and hats, and are holding ha...
Photograph

Pond at Bracken Brae, Country Home of John Johnston

Date: 1888
Description: Several adults, two children and a dog enjoying a pond at Bracken Brae, the country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. Hilda...

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