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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | "One of the most interesting expeditions which I have ever made in my life was a trip on a hand-car," Hölzlhuber wrote. Julius Movius, the General Agent fo... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | On a very hot day in August 1858 Hölzlhuber visited the farm of Jack Smith, an Irishman who had immigrated to Canada eleven years previously with his wife ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Tuisco left Bremerhaven May 6, 1856. Hölzlhuber called this the "quickest three masted immigration boat," holding 335 passengers. Though in the ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hofmann and three sons had emigrated in 1848 from the Rhine region to northern Wisconsin. Initially they had no neighbors for a distance of four to five ho... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Departing from Lake Winnebago, Hölzlhuber boarded the Plymouth, a high, narrow steamboat that was built specially for navigating the narrow and some... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee |
| Date: | 04 1860 |
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| Description: | Accompanying this sketch is Hölzlhuber's description of his last foray from Milwaukee before leaving America. "Before my return to Europe, D. Brandis, the ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber received a request from the German theater director Henry Börnstein in St. Louis, Missouri, to purchase his theater sets and music. Accordingly,... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | On an excursion to the South in November 1859, Hölzlhuber made the three-day trip on the steamboat Planet from St. Louis to New Orleans. In the harb... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Indian village, along a river, (in a painted reconstruction) during an Indian ceremony. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Stoner house, located at 321 South Hamilton Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The Benjamin Franklin Hopkins house, 142 East Gilman Street, built by Hopkins about 1850. The house was later owned by Dr. William Jacobs. The square bay ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Simeon Mills (farm) house located at 2709 Sommers Avenue. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Oscar D. Brandenburg house, 22 Langdon Street. Later the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house. Razed and replaced in 1972 by the Langdon Apartments. Oscar... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The sandstone house known as Walker's Castle was located in the 900 block of East Gorham Street. According to newspaper articles, it was built in about 186... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A painting of the Grignon house and surrounding land and water. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | An artist's depiction of an elevated view of the first State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road). |
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