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Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Views of Milwaukee, Wis.

Date: 1882
Description: Bird's-eye views of various sections of Milwaukee.
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

Date: 
Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
Photograph

27th Street Viaduct

Date: 09 01 1910
Description: 27th Street viaduct looking north, Menomonee Valley area, with gas holders of the Milwaukee Gas Light Co. in the background. Pedestrians and wagons are cro...
Photograph

16th Street Viaduct

Date: 08 27 1910
Description: Looking south towards the 16th Street viaduct over Menominee Valley from about Clybourn Street. Shows the surrounding industrial area and neighborhoods. Se...
Photograph

Bear Town Mountain

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Description: Bear Town Mountain from Cherry Hill. A man and a horse-drawn wagon are posing near homes that are scattered through the valley setting.
Photograph

Norwegian Mountain Village

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Description: Elevated view of a town and body of water in a valley in Roldal, Norway. Two people in a horse-drawn vehicle are in the foreground on the road leading from...
Photograph

Gettysburg Battlefield Site

Date: 1863
Description: Stereograph of a scene near the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. Two men sit in a wagon in the center of the image.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...

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