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Residential Street with Children on Tricycles

Date: 1936
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...
Photograph

Residential Housing from Hill

Date: 1936
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...
Photograph

Men Walking on Residential Street

Date: 1936
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...
Photograph

Good American Homes Program

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: City Manager Leonard G. Howell turns the first shovelful of dirt for the first of eleven houses to be built by Madison builders under the Good American Hom...
Manuscript

Superior--The City of Destiny

Date: 1890
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...
Photograph

Madison Home Show

Date: 09 15 1950
Description: Madison's first home show in thirteen years was officially opened by Acting Manager George Forster when he cut the ribbon at the entrance to the exhibit ar...
Photograph

Keen Manufacturing Company

Date: 03 12 1952
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...
Print

Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Company, dealers of farm, lumber, and mineral lands, from Appleton, Wisconsin, with an image on the ...
Photograph

Ranch House

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Front exterior view of a ranch-style house newly built by C.M. Wildenberg. The building is described as a "26'x42' three bedroom ranch." It is located at 5...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Cornell University Lands in Wisconsin for Sale

Date: 1877
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...
Map or Atlas

Township no. 24 N., Range no. 20 East, 4th Mer. : Military Reservation for Fort Howard

Date: 1914
Description: This map is a photostat copy from the original 1829 map in the War Department. The map shows location of Fort Howard, lots, land claims of Jacques Porlier ...
Photograph

Parade of Homes in Meadowood

Date: 06 12 1956
Description: Planter boxes are one of the features in this house located at 5509 Russett Road. The house was built by built by Robert Shaw for the 1956 Parade of homes.
Photograph

1956 Parade of Homes in Meadowood

Date: 06 12 1956
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 ...
Photograph

Parade of Homes in Meadowood

Date: 06 12 1956
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...
Photograph

Parade of Homes in Meadowood

Date: 06 12 1956
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 ...
Photograph

River View Mobile Home Park

Date: 07 1988
Description: "Theresa Village President, Martin Koll, presided at the ribbon-cutting at the River View Mobile Home Park."
Photograph

Valley Estates Subdivision

Date: 03 1998
Description: "Village officials help kick off Valley Estates Subdivision."
Photograph

Valley Estates Subdivision

Date: 03 1998
Description: "Progress on Valley Estates Subdivision."
Photograph

New Parking Lot

Date: 07 15 1957
Description: Cars park in a new parking lot at the former site of Washington School at 217 North Broom Street.
Map or Atlas

Rough Map of Milwalky and the Adjacent Country

Date: 1835
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...

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