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First Avenue

Date: 
Description: View of First Avenue, the main street in town. Stores, restaurants, and lodging houses stand on either side of the street. Snow-covered mountains rise in t...
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Storefronts in Mercer

Date: 1939
Description: Automobiles and trucks parked along Main Street in Mercer. Storefront signs on the left side read: Sweet Shop, Drug, The Store, Coffee Shop, and Rugee's Me...
Map or Atlas

Map of the country in the vicinity of Todd’s Tavern with the position of the 2nd Army of the Potomac, May 8th, 1864

Date: 1864
Description: This map depicts the battlefield at Todd's Tavern, Va., the site of a battle on May 7-8, 1864. Depicted are roads, houses, drainage, vegetation and troop p...
Map or Atlas

Map of Stage Coach Routes and Location of Taverns

Date: 1930
Description: Pen and ink map on paper of Wisconsin and northern Illinois showing stagecoach routes (marked in red) that traveled between Lake Michigan and the Mississip...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1937
Description: View looking down middle of Main Street. Businesses from left to right include the U.S. Post Office, Tire & Battery Service, Store - Tourist & Supplies, St...
Photograph

Atlas Linen Supply Company Delivery Truck

Date: 1940
Description: A man removes a package from the back of an International D-15 truck owned by Atlas Linen Supply Company. The vehicle is parked along the curb in front of ...
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys in front of Tavern

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Description: Group of men and boys posed standing in front of a wooden building, probably a tavern. The photographer's wagon is in the background.
Photograph

Drummond Street Scene

Date: 1937
Description: View across road of a man and a dog standing on the front stoop of a one-story building that has a sign that reads “Art’s Lunches and Confectionery, Ask fo...
Photograph

Arbutus Inn and Original Snowmobile Hall of Fame

Date: 05 1972
Description: Spring scene on Wall Street. The building is the Arbutus Inn, hotel, bar and dining room. It was also the original Snowmobile Hall of Fame. Two boys are st...
Photograph

Taverns on Milwaukee Street

Date: 1975
Description: "Main (Milwaukee) Street. Six taverns were in business in the span of one block!"
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Rural Tavern

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Description: Eight men standing outside a corner tavern. The men are standing on a plank sidewalk with a dog. The is a Blatz Beer sign hanging outside the door.
Photograph

Fire at Das Pioneer Bier Haus

Date: 11 1991
Description: "With windchill factors below zero, firemen battled this fire at Das Pioneer Bier haus, operated by Mike Polster. Former proprietors were John Miller, Henr...
Photograph

Merchants Inn

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Description: View across unpaved street towards two men in a buggy drawn by a team of two horses in front of the Merchants Inn.
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee County

Date: 1858
Description: An ink on paper map of Milwaukee County and the eastern portion of Waukesha County that shows the townships of Oak Creek, Franklin, Greenfield, Wauwatosa, ...
Map or Atlas

Official Map of Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: This 1870 map of Brown County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, land ownership, roads, rai...
Map or Atlas

Map of Spooner, Wisconsin Lakes Area

Date: 1941
Description: This 1941 map covers Washburn County, Wisconsin, as well as western Sawyer, eastern Burnett, and northeastern Polk counties. It shows the locations of tour...
Photograph

Historic Tavern Demolished

Date: 11 1991
Description: Landmark tavern in Theresa demolished to make way for highway improvement plan.
Photograph

Group of People on a Stagecoach

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a group of people posing sitting on a stagecoach pulled by a team of four horses wearing flynets. The stagecoach is in f...
Map or Atlas

Plan of Farwell's Eastern Addition to the City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1856
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on tracing paper and shows plat of city, local streets, block numbers, topography, several buildings, and includes an explan...
Photograph

Trameri's Bar

Date: 1974
Description: An exterior view of Trameri's Bar at 625 West Main Street.

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