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Fountain Spring House

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Description: Exterior view of the Fountain Spring House hotel.
Photograph

Menomonee Drug Company Wagon

Date: 1913
Description: Rial Herreman stands beside a horse-drawn wagon/float, decorated with fresh flowers, advertising the Menomonee Drug Company. This may have been part of a l...
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Photograph

Waukesha Co. Newspaper's First Home

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Description: View of the Waukesha County newspaper's first home.
Postcard

View from Five Points

Date: 1910
Description: View looking east from Five Points, with a bank and dentist's office in the foreground. Caption reads: "East from Five Points, Waukesha, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: View down Main Street from Five Points. Caption reads: "Looking down Main St. from Five Points, Waukesha, Wis."
Photograph

Jesse Smith Tavern

Date: 1914
Description: View of the Jessie Smith Tavern, with a group of people and a horse-drawn carriage outside.
Photograph

"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: A large, white brick building is in the middle center, surrounded by trees. A smaller white building is in the right background. In front of the building...
Photograph

Eagle Depot and Yards

Date: 1924
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the Eagle train depot. A number of pedestrians are around the depot. On the left near the road, two men stand in front of...
Print

Fountain Spring House Menu

Date: 08 01 1889
Description: Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background...
Photograph

Jeffry's Mill

Date: 01 22 1932
Description: Two men fish from a diving platform while a third fishes from the shore at Jeffry's Mill. The tall, wood frame mill building is in the background, with an ...
Photograph

Street Scene, Biplane Superimposed

Date: 1910
Description: Street in Genesee Depot, with superimposed biplane flying low overhead.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view looking across the unpaved main street towards wooden buildings along a sidewalk. Caption reads: "Main Street, Dousman, Wis."
Postcard

Elm Grove

Date: 1912
Description: View along stream towards people standing in front of buildings and near a stone bridge. The buildings include a post office and a feed mill. Caption reads...
Postcard

Hartford

Date: 09 25 1905
Description: View down center of unpaved, busy city street, with several horse-drawn vehicles parked along the curbs.
Photograph

Asahel Spring

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a group of men and women relaxing around a spring with concentric steps of limestone. The man on the right, holding the dipper, is Dr. Hugo ...
Photograph

Farm Elm

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Description: A man is posing in a horse-drawn buggy on the drive in front of a tree-lined fence. Caption on slide reads: "Farm elm near Waukesha, Wis." Hand-tinted lant...
Postcard

Nashotah Depot

Date: 1910
Description: An elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train depot at Nashotah. A woman is standing on the wooden sidewalk at left, near a small shelter. ...
Photograph

Tower View

Date: 1900
Description: Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s...

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