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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...
Photograph

Majorette with Baton

Date: 04 29 1963
Description: Rose Sorenson is waving her baton with one arm, while her other arm is in a sling.
Photograph

Employee Outing

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Women employees of Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. (TMERL) competing a foot race at the third company outing.
Poster

Air Show Program

Date: 08 18 1935
Description: Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica...
Photograph

Railroad Employee Outing

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Elevated view of the third annual outing of the employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMERL) at Waukesha Beach.
Postcard

Moor (Mud) Baths

Date: 1920
Description: View of the main building in the distance, and in the foreground a golf course of the Moor (Mud) Baths. Caption reads: "Main Bldg., Moor (Mud) Baths, Wauke...
Postcard

Moor Bath Links

Date: 1920
Description: View of people sitting on the porch of the golf club house at the Moor Bath Links. Caption reads: "Club House, Waukesha Golf Club on Moor Bath Links, Wauke...
Postcard

Waldheim Park Sanatorium Boat House

Date: 
Description: Waldheim Park Sanatorium boat house. Caption reads: "Boat House, Waldheim Park Sanatorium, Oconomowoc, Wis."
Photograph

Lake La Belle

Date: 1870
Description: View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left.
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

Felix Liburdi

Date: 1933
Description: Felix Liburdi, age 17 and a student at the Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, demonstrates his kicki...
Photograph

Swimmers at Jeffry's Mill

Date: 1933
Description: A diver is caught mid-air as another prepares to dive from a diving platform on the shore of the mill pond at Jeffry's Mill at Eagleville. A boy watches fr...
Photograph

Lakeside Croquet Game

Date: 1880
Description: Lakeside lawn set up for croquet game and garden pavilion at the estate, "Sunnybank." A man sits in the grass with two children. On the right in the backgr...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A Young Alfred Lunt as Rip Van Winkle

Date: 1904
Description: A young Alfred Lunt dressed as Rip Van Winkle, using clothing and a musket borrowed from farm hands and leggings made of gunny sacks.
Postcard

Sanz Landing

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view across water towards Sanz Landing. Caption reads: "Sanz Landing, Eagle Springs Lake, Wis."
Postcard

Minnehaha Springs

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline towards a two people in a boat at Minnehaha Springs. In the background is a pavilion among the trees, and a small wooden pier at the sh...
Map or Atlas

Map of Upper and Lower Nashotah Lakes, Showing the Location of the Nashotah Mission

Date: 1934
Description: This map shows the area as it appeared in 1848 and includes buildings, land use, and roads with distances to nearby locations. The upper right corner reads...
Photograph

Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: A young man with cap and light-colored tie is sitting in the stern of a sailboat with five young women. He has his arms around two of the women; two others...
Photograph

The Aderyn

Date: 08 1901
Description: The Class A, shovel-nosed sailboat, the Aderyn sailing on Lac La Belle. A handwritten caption on the reverse of the photograph identifies Herman Ott...
Photograph

The Adventure

Date: 1937
Description: Three men, one hiking out, sailing the Adventure on Pine Lake. A note on the reverse of the photograph identifies Herby Brumder as skipper.

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