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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
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| Description: | A view showing a line of ox carts loaded with furs leaving the Hudson Bay Company's Post to make the 16 mile trip to avoid the rapids on Slave River. Housi... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Sjur Starkson Reque home. From left to right, seated, are Martha Reque, Mari Reque Lee, Brita Reque Quale, Nels Lee and Ole Quale. Standing are Anna Ma... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Nichols House with a group of people on and around the porch. |
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| Description: | Cowboys come in for dinner at an Indian Territory ranch house. Their horses wait near trees. |
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| Description: | Man and woman in a horse and wagon in front of a building with two women seated on the stoop, probably the Spaulding home, the present location of the Dr. ... |
| Date: | 08 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood. |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a buggy pulled by a horse wearing a fly-net. The buggy pauses in the yard in front of a frame house. |
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| Description: | A young boy rides a horse without a saddle in a farm yard. |
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| Description: | Several individuals, two dogs, and two cats gather around a tent set up near a building, while other individuals gather around a horse on the right. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | George Fortune of River Falls sitting in his new car, with his dog in the back seat. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| 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,... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Exterior of house at 525 Jefferson Street. The first bathtub in Milwaukee, made of tin, was put into this house. A man in a horse-drawn sled is parked in... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A horse and wagon for the Milwaukee Brewery Co. and a car are parked on the road near the curb. The road is lined with residences. |
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| Description: | Group of people posed on and around porch of the Nichols House. |
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| Description: | Man standing near Purple Martin birdhouse on a tall post, near a border of flowering bushes. There are houses in the background. |
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