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| Description: | A man wearing a tie stands next to an industrial trailer used for clearing of land. The side of the trailer reads "BROS" and there are other vehicles in th... |
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| Description: | A man in a hat and overalls leans over a trench or ditch digger, looking down into the excavated area. Pipes, an automobile, and a building are in the back... |
| Date: | 07 05 1938 |
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| Description: | A recently planted sapling in the backyard of an empty house, with other houses and roads visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Commercial buildings, roads, cars parked in lots, as seen from the snow-covered lawn of the Village Hall. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from lawn of curved residential street lined with recently constructed housing and lampposts. A car sits in a driveway of a house on the left, and fur... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Recently constructed residential housing as viewed from a hill. A fence is in the foreground. Porches, backyards, and small garages lead down to the Villag... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View up residential street with newly constructed houses, young trees and lampposts. Men in suits and hats walk along the sidewalk. A speed limit sign is o... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for Moulton, Moran & Co. The logo shows North America and depicts Superior as the center of a hub with spokes going to Russia, to China and Japa... |
| Date: | 03 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Keen Manufacturing Company, 2661 East Washington Avenue. The photgraph was taken for Richard Beichl, real estate agent, and is the site of the East Madison... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This map shows the lands in northern Wisconsin owned by Cornell University that were for sale. Text on the map encourages interested buyers to seek more in... |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | This house in the 1956 Parade of Homes in Meadowood with its illuminated device for showing the house numbers has been wired to the exact standards of the ... |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Ornamental ironwork based in a planter holds up the corner of a roof overhang at 5609 Russett Rd. The house was built by built by Charles Fry for the 195... |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | One of the houses in the Parade of Homes was built with a carport. This located at 5610 Raymond Rd. The house was built by built by Hermann E. Postweiler ... |
| Date: | 03 1998 |
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| Description: | "Village officials help kick off Valley Estates Subdivision." |
| Date: | 03 1998 |
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| Description: | "Progress on Valley Estates Subdivision." |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cars park in a new parking lot at the former site of Washington School at 217 North Broom Street. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on paper. The map shows landowners in "Milwalky" or present day Milwaukee. Includes "list of property offered to Mr. Walker". The m... |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Shows riverside property west of the Milwaukee River. Inscribed by several early Milwaukee settlers, including Henry W. Cleveland, Cy... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, railroads, and roads. The map was compiled by the civil engineer and city surveyor agent H.I.... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | New residential construction on the outer southwest edge of Madison. |
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