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Photograph

Homestead Act Applicants Waiting in Line

Date: 12 18 1890
Description: Elevated view looking down at homestead applicants waiting in line for 2-3 days in winter cold before a window in the Marathon County Court House, Dec. 18-...
Photograph

Elevated View Over De Pere

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view over De Pere. In the foreground is the De Pere News Office and Post Office building. Behind it people are walking on the bridge over the Fox ...
Photograph

View of Railroad Tracks and Station

Date: 1870
Description: Section of overall panorama, showing railroad station.
Drawing

George P. Merrill Dinner Menu

Date: 12 15 1888
Description: Menu page and back cover for a "Dinner tendered Geo. P. Merrill by Chas. H. Wheeler," with a handwritten menu with wines and spirits in red, and colored pe...
Photograph

Snow Covered Street

Date: 1889
Description: Winter scene of North Broadway at Cass Street, De Pere, Wisconsin. Streets are snow covered.
Photograph

Lumber Camp Group

Date: 1881
Description: Archie Young and crew at Yellow River camp.
Photograph

Log Loading

Date: 1886
Description: Men loading logs at D.J. Arpin's Crooked Reef camp.
Photograph

Brown House

Date: 1895
Description: Pedestrian walking on the snowy street in front of Daniel Fitch Brown's house.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog cover with the words: "Roller & Ball Bearings on the Farm." Features an illustration of a woman surrounded by clouds perched on a winged wheel, hol...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1899
Description: Catalog cover with the headline: "Light Draft Ideals." Two eagles flying in the sky, and a border of wheat and flowers, are illustrated to look like a carv...
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front and back of advertising card for the New Gale Chilled Plow. On the front is a color illustration of a man sitting at the base of a tree pulling the t...
Print

Holt's Lightning Hay Knife

Date: 1881
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man and young boy outside during winter. The man is using a Lightning Hay knife to cut the ha...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Map or Atlas

Chapman’s New Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: This map of the state of Wisconsin was created in 1868 and later used by Increase Lapham to trace an outbreak of tornadoes going across the state in May of...
Photograph

Men Ice Skating on Lake Monona

Date: 1897
Description: Men ice skating on Lake Monona, with two young boys. Other skaters are behind them, and the far shoreline is in the background.
Photograph

Northeast View of University Pier

Date: 12 1895
Description: A northeast view of Madison from University Pier.
Photograph

Wills Old House

Date: 12 1899
Description: View of the old Will homestead. The home retains the original Pommer Fachwerk.
Photograph

Loggers Posing with Team of Horses and Sled

Date: 1889
Description: Outdoor group portrait of ten men standing behind a team of two horses in the snow. Standing directly behind the horses in front of the sled loaded with lo...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — January & December

Date: 1895
Description: Front and back cover of catalog, for the months of January and December. January features a buck running through the woods, with the year "1894" over a lar...
Map or Atlas

North America : Showing the Origin & Progress of the Storm of March 14-17, 1859, and How it Might Have Been Known Upon the Lakes a Whole Day Before it Reached Them!

Date: 1868
Description: This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ...

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