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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype and albumen print of a picket fence and the caption: "First Attempt;" 1887, What's the Matter? "Light struck." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype print and an albumen print looking toward Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down Keller Avenue towards businesses along the left. A round or octagon shaped building on the far left has a sign that reads: "Restaurant". Further ... |
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| Description: | Drawn map of Landsford, South Carolina, from Thomas Sumter Papers. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard with engraving of the hotel in the upper left corner with a caption below that reads: "American and European Plan." Text at right reads: "If not c... |
| Date: | 05 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting at a writing desk at Estella's. She is facing a bright window which has a window seat. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch sit on chairs outside in a backyard writing on sheets of paper. A liquor bottle sits on the table between them. |
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| Description: | Display of student work including drawings, maps, and essays. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Mr. Edward Schildhauer sitting at a desk and writing in a book. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The front and back of a postcard featuring a drawing of the Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario that was sent by Alice and Floyd Quinney during t... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | This plat of Vanceburg Cemetery, Town of Sheridan, Dunn County, Wisconsin, likely dates from the 1880s and "is intended for the correction of names of peop... |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Shows riverside property west of the Milwaukee River. Inscribed by several early Milwaukee settlers, including Henry W. Cleveland, Cy... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Includes certifications signed by surveyor and by "John T. Perkins, by his attorney I.A. Lapham." Inscribed and signed certification ... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Includes certifications signed by "Geo R. Bluntz, District Survey of Grant Co. W.T." and Ben C. Eastman. |
| Date: | 08 1851 |
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| Description: | Ink on paper. Includes explanation and a certification signed by Jacob Marty, Electa Marty, and a justice of the peace. Original map is very light and in f... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the high school. There is a cupola over the belfry and an arched doorway. Caption reads: "Baldwin, Wis. High ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of Baraboo from a hill, showing mainly dwellings. Bluffs are in the far background. Caption reads: "Baraboo, View... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the public school, a large brick building with a turret in the corner. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the County Jail surrounded by a lawn. A sidewalk leads to wide stone steps that rise up to an arched entrance... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view across street of the front of the Catholic Church, which is a large, stone building. There is a belfry on the lef... |
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