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Commercial Block Renewed by Dramatic Rehabilitation

Imig Block, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Three owners participate in complex project to rehabilitate an 1882 elaborate Victorian Italianate style building.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Sheboygan

Date: 1885
Description: Bird's-eye view of Sheboygan, with inset of J.J. Volrath Manufacturing Company.
Map or Atlas

Sheboygan, Wis. Population 18000

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye view of Sheboygan on an advertisement for Kempf's Magical Salve, distributed by E.J. Kempf, "Legitimate Bill Poster and Distributor."
Photograph

Storefront Portrait

Date: 1898
Description: Two well-dressed women in aprons and two smartly dressed men pose in front of the open entrance of J. Buntman's fruit and confectionery store at 1005 North...
Photograph

View, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: Slightly elevated view across street towards a residential area.
Photograph

Large Snowbank

Date: 03 04 1881
Description: Several people are standing on a large snow bank on 8th Street, looking north after the big snowstorm of 1881. Signs hanging over the sidewalk attached to ...
Photograph

View, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 03 04 1881
Description: Winter scene from the corner of 7th Street after the "big snow" of 1881, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Photograph

View, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 03 04 1881
Description: Winter scene of a commercial street after the "big snow" of 1881, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Snow in Sheboygan

Date: 1880
Description: Winter scene of Sheboygan after a heavy snowfall. Mr. Henry C. Mueller can be seen on the top of the three-story building which he built in 1871. Many peop...
Photograph

South Twelfth Street, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: Elevated view of South Twelfth Street. There is a child standing in the center of the street holding onto a wagon in which another child is sitting. A chur...
Photograph

Mission House, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: View from road towards a mission house, erected between 1862 and 1873.
Print

Mission House, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Date: 1865
Description: View of a mission house, erected between 1862 and 1873.
Photograph

Gottshalk's First Meat Market

Date: 1863
Description: Exterior view of M. Gottshalk's first meat market.
Photograph

Sheboygan Livery Stable

Date: 1892
Description: Men posed in front of a livery barn and horse sales stable.
Photograph

Graumann's Dressmaking Shop

Date: 1898
Description: Miss Graumann, far left, poses with four dressmakers in front of her shop. A sign on the right side of the door states "Dressmaking, Miss Annie Graumann"....
Map or Atlas

Sheboygan Harbor Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map of Sheboygan Harbor shows the river mouth and harbor, piers, wharfs, piles of old destroyed bridge wharfs, streets, and the lake shore from survey...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Mouth of the Sheboygan River, Wisconsin

Date: 1836
Description: This 1836 map consists chiefly of a detailed map of the the mouth of the Sheboygan River. An inset map of the region and cross section diagrams of the pier...
Historical Essay

Kohler, Walter Jodok 1875-1940

Politician and Industrialist
Biography of Walter Jodok Koher, politician and founder of the Kohler Company.
Historical Essay

Third Ward fire (Milwaukee, 1892)

Brief description fo the events surrounding Milwaukee's Third Ward fire of 1892.
Historical Essay

Slovenians in Wisconsin

Learn about the Slovenians who settled in cities in the southern and eastern parts of the state in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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