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| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb... |
| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | View from a pile-driver on the north pier of the community then known as Southport. The pier visible at left center, constructed between 1840-1842, was th... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | An excerpt from "Picturesque America," ed. Bryant, (1872). |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The Lake Michigan shoreline from Eichelman Park. In the distance is a smokestack and industrial buildings. Caption reads: "Scene on Lake Michigan from Eich... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across intersection toward a building on the street corner. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Street, Kenosha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The second YMCA building in Kenosha. It was used as a commercial structure at the time of the photograph. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Lake Shore Road in Somers. A streetcar is on the right. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Interstate highways I-94 and I-43 running concurrently in Kenosha County. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Assembly line of the American Motors Company, formerly Nash Motors, in Kenosha. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery's first Rambler automobile during a test for strength in Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the wagon shop of John B. Pirsch of Kenosha whose father, Nicholas Pirsch, had begun building buggies and wagons in 1857. Several men pose... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Automobile Combination Chemical Engine and Hose Wagon. When the manufacturer, the Peter Pirsch Company of Kenosha, donated this image to the Historical So... |
| Date: | 04 29 1989 |
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| Description: | One of a group of photographs taken to document the appearance of the Chrysler Company plant in Kenosha in 1989. The factory, which was then the oldest au... |
| Date: | 03 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for a truck made by the Winther Motor Truck Company. Headline says, "Built for the Service - Trucks Now Must Yield". |
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| Description: | Several men and women sit outdoors on the grounds of Bain's Camp in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 05 26 1909 |
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| Description: | The unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln Statue in front of the Gilbert Simmons Memorial Library. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones standing on the state line sign between Wisconsin and Illinois. This picture was taken when the Lloyd Jones family moved from M... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Edward and Manny Chulew at the Chulew Furniture store. |
| Date: | 12 11 1980 |
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| Description: | Holocaust survivor Manny Chulew in his Kenosha store, Barr Furniture. |
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