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Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Print

Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
Photograph

International Harvester Branch(?) Office

Date: 1906
Description: Two men and a woman working in a branch(?) office of the International Harvester Company. One man is talking on a telephone. Portraits of William Deering a...
Photograph

Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: The restaurant at Austin Straubel Field. In 1965 Brown County completed a new passenger terminal at Austin Straubel Airport that included a large (and appa...
Photograph

Downtown Scene

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Description: People pose on sidewalk in front of businesses including A.J. Wells. There is a horse-drawn wagon parked at the side of the road.
Photograph

AGW Company Store

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Description: Miss Martin, Miss Weiland and Joseph(?) Lee pose inside the AGW Company Store.
Photograph

100 Percent De Pere

Date: 1952
Description: Mr. Yuenger casts the first ballot in his ward. De Pere, Wisconsin in 1952 received 100 percent voter turnout.
Photograph

Green Bay Packers Fans

Date: 07 20 1970
Description: Packer fans, despite bad weather, wait in line Sunday outside The Milwaukee Journal Company building to wait for Monday's football ticket sale. First in li...
Photograph

Hansen Home

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of the residence of Casper Hansen, built in 1858. The home has a white picket fence, and a group of people are posing behind the fen...
Photograph

California House

Date: 1870
Description: View of the California house next to a store with a sign that reads: "M. Silber & Bro.," and a "Boot & Shoe Store." A bakery is on the left, and a group of...
Photograph

Randall Wilcox Residence

Date: 1867
Description: View across unpaved road towards Randall Wilcox's home, with a fence along the sidewalk. A group of people are standing on the front porch.
Photograph

Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin Site

Date: 1900
Description: A young girl and a woman working a field with horses. Trees and buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Eleazer William's House's First Site at Little Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: A woman stands in a marsh near the site of Eleazer William's first house.
Photograph

Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin

Date: 1915
Description: A group of people, men and women, standing outside in the yard in front of Eleazer William's log cabin, five miles south of De Pere. The women in the cente...
Photograph

Israel Greene Beaumont's House

Date: 1929
Description: Interior of the front parlor, with two women sitting on rocking chairs in front of the fireplace. The house is located at 203 South Jefferson Street. Beaum...
Photograph

Israel Greene Beaumont House

Date: 1925
Description: Israel Greene Beaumont House located at 203 South Jefferson Street. Anne ("Aunt Nan") Brett is seated in the south wing room. Beaumont's house was demolis...
Photograph

Cotton House

Date: 1949
Description: View of three women standing in the foreground looking at the front of the Captain John Cotton house. Also known as "Beaupre", this Greek Revival style hou...
Photograph

Unveiling of the Eleazer Williams Tablet by the D.A.R.

Date: 10 26 1927
Description: View of a crowd of formally-dressed men and women standing around the plaque mounted on a a large rock.
Photograph

Fort Howard Hospital Parlor

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Description: View of a parlor built partially out of stone. A fireplace is on the back right wall, with a portrait hanging above it, and a spinning wheel near the left ...
Postcard

Fort Howard Hospital Exterior

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Description: View of ranch-style building with a porch, and people standing on it. Before restoration. Handwritten text at bottom reads: "One of the original Ft. Howard...

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