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Bird's-Eye View of Elmwood

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from hill towards Elmwood. Tree-covered bluffs are in the distance. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View of Elmwood, Wis."
Photograph

Kickapoo Valley

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of a town in the Kickapoo Valley.
Photograph

Elevated View of Town

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of town from hill. Caption reads: "Birds Eye View Richland Center, Wis".
Photograph

Sauk County Road

Date: 1920
Description: Loganville Road in Sauk County taken by the Wisconsin Good Roads Association. The photograph was meant to create a contrast between the new improved road ...
Postcard

27th Street Viaduct

Date: 1911
Description: Looking north at the Menomonee Valley. Road incorrectly identified on the postcard as twenty-second street viaduct. Pedestrians and carriages are crossing ...
Postcard

View from Alma

Date: 07 15 1907
Description: Photographic postcard of the river valley from the bluffs near Alma. A small portion of the river is visible between the bluffs and somewhat obscured by lo...
Photograph

Seven Sisters Peaks

Date: 1900
Description: View of Seven Sisters Peaks, a mountain range beyond the buildings of the city.
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Milwaukee and Rock River Valleys

Date: 1940
Description: This map of southeastern Wisconsin depicts the Rock and Milwaukee rivers and the Kettle Moraine area. Cities and villages are identified. Stamp stating "Po...
Photograph

Selma Eidsmoe

Date: 1935
Description: Selma Eidsmoe, wearing knickers and a head scarf, poses holding a gun over her shoulder. She is standing on a bluff above the Pecatonica River valley. She ...
Photograph

The Coulee Region

Date: 1936
Description: View down hill towards valley of farming country in the “Coulee Region.”
Photograph

Walter Alexander and His Children with Governor Philipp

Date: 1921
Description: Group portrait of four people standing in front of a wire fence on the edge of a cliff, with trees and a valley in the background. Walter Alexander stands ...
Postcard

Elevated View of Chaseburg

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view of Chaseburg and the surrounding landscape, with a river and bluffs in the background. Caption reads: "Chaseburg, Wis."
Photograph

Lower Valley Farms in Castle Rock

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of two farms, with fields and barns in a valley. This image appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Lead Region, on a photo...
Postcard

Stream Crossing on S.T.H. #11 M 6

Date: 08 1925
Description: View from hill across a field towards a stream running along the base of a hillside. Caption reads: "U.S. H. 61, Crawford Co. Boscobel-Soldiers Gr. Road. M...
Photograph

Arville Schaleben Standing Next to Automobile

Date: 1935
Description: Arville Schaleben standing next to an automobile with a camera over his shoulder, a screwdriver in his right hand, and a cigarette in his left hand. A man ...
Photograph

Farm in Matanuska Valley

Date: 1970
Description: View towards farm buildings, with snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Day by day — A new chapter in pioneer history!

Date: 07 14 1935
Description: Newspaper article in The Milwaukee Journal on Arville Schaleben and his coverage as a reporter/photographer on the colonists moving from Wisconsin a...
Postcard

Fields and Mountains at Walnut Grove

Date: 07 14 1909
Description: View looking down on fenced fields, with some harvested bundles of what may be hay. There are two reapers parked near the fence. In the distance are mounta...
Photograph

Mill Building — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Three men are working on the top of the mill building. There is no roof, and the logs are not filled in or chinked. The road curves from the left in the ba...
Photograph

Slave Cabin — Walnut Grove

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: View towards the front and right side of the slave cabin built of chinked logs with a peaked roof. Steps lead up to the door, and a small window is on the ...

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