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Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1888
Description: View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin...
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Wisconsin State Capitol View Looking South

Date: 1885
Description: View from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking south. Lake Monona is to the left, and West Washington Avenue is on the right. The Dane County Courthouse on ...
Photograph

Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of the exterior of the Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets. There is a church building in the background on the left.
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...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1883
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior, county seat of Douglas County, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Panoramic View of Fountain City, Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background.
Photograph

Capitol Square Parade

Date: 10 07 1887
Description: Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers of the University Battalion are marching on West Main Stree...
Painting

The Newhall House in the Main Street of Milwaukee

Date: 1882
Description: The magnificent Newhall House, a hotel that dwarfed the neighboring buildings, opened in 1857. Hölzlhuber completed this sketch for the Neue illustriert...
Photograph

Hotel Chequamegon

Date: 1885
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
Photograph

Whiting House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l...
Photograph

Avery House, Superior City, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Exterior view of the Avery House, with groups of people gathered on its porches and balcony.
Photograph

Hutson House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Hutson House, with people standing on its balcony and porch.
Print

Tonyawatha Spring Hotel Grounds

Date: 1889
Description: From a map published by Angell and Hastreither, the drawing depicts the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel grounds on Lake Monona. The hotel, located in Blooming Grov...
Photograph

The Elephant Hotel

Date: 1882
Description: A view of the left side of the Elephant Hotel, constructed in the shape of an elephant with small windows punctuating the side and a covered open-air obser...
Photograph

The Park Hotel

Date: 1880
Description: An exterior view of the Park Hotel, at the corner of Main and Carroll Streets. Children and adults are standing on the street corner on the left. A large g...
Print

Park Hotel Dinner Menu

Date: 04 06 1884
Description: Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam...
Print

Menu for the 7th Annual Banquet of the Merchants Association

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Die cut elongated octagonal menu for the 7th annual banquet of the Merchants Association at The Plankinton. On the cover is an oval portrait of a deer with...
Photograph

Hotel Ogden

Date: 1885
Description: Exterior view of the front of the Hotel Ogden located at 149 East Wilson Street. Three men wearing suits are relaxing on the porch, with two men sitting on...
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...
Print

Chequamegon Hotel Dinner Menu

Date: 09 04 1885
Description: Exterior and interior bill of fare from The Chequamegon, with views on the back of rock formations, waterfalls, a spot illustration of a train going over a...

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