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| Description: | Jacques Vieau, agent for the Northwest Fur Company of Montreal, built a trading post here in 1796, on what is now called Jambo Creek after the nickname the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. At the time this image was made, the structure was occupied by Ben Schau... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. The American Fur Company, which had been organized by John Jacob Astor i... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. At the time this photograph was taken, the structure was occupied by Ben... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Astor fur trading building, The Northwest Fur Company, in 1808. This building was later used as a post office before the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Historic marker placed on the site of the first cabin built in Milwaukee, 1795. A replica cabin is behind. The plaque says: On this site the first permane... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A front view of the Layton House, which was originally an inn. Signs on the building indicate that at the time of the photograph it was the business of Car... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company. |
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| Description: | The former Astor (American Fur Trading Company) post building, now a museum of local history and fur trading history. There is a sign reading: "The Riversi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the John Jacob Astor House. The building previously housed the American Fur Company. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A woman is seated in front of silver fox pelts hanging from pegs at the Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm sale. On the right is a poster of an advertisem... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across King Street towards the Arcade building. The right side of the Majestic theater building is on the far left, and then the storefronts are, from... |
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| Description: | View of the fox kennels at a fur farm. The main office is in the center of the fenced-in area. Caption reads: "Lemmer Fox and Fur Co., Marathon, Wis. U.S.A... |
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