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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee River in the downtown area, looking south from the west side of the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Ackerman farmhouse, built about 1841, located at University Avenue and East Mill Street. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View of the Berlin High School, with children playing and people walking in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Strang House, also called "Mormon House," where "King" Strang lived and died, and where he published the Voree Herald. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Martin H. Meyer's birthplace. Reproduced from a lead pencil sketch made in 1870. |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of the building with a decorative frieze in a pediment above the columned entrance. |
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| Description: | View of the Cliff House on the lake, with pine trees surrounding the property, and a cliff behind the building. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | City Hall in the background of a bustling street, with pedestrians, horses, carriages, and wagons. A stagecoach is parked across the street on the left. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of a farmstead with multiple pine trees. A road is in foreground with a carriage driven by two horses, and a man in the carriage. A dog runs in front ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of an estate covered with various plants and trees. Two people stand on a sidewalk in front of the distant estate, looking towards it. Two horses dra... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | D.L. Fairchild residence from the street, with a stagecoach and pedestrian in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | H.S. Winsor residence, with a stagecoach in the foreground. |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a lake shoreline. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore. |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of Milwaukee Harbor with large sailboats on the water. In the minimalist depiction the sandy shoreline with short plant growth sweeps aroun... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A drawing of the American House, 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the American House at 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868. |
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