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| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | View down snow covered 8th Street. Text on back reads: "8th St. looking south, taken from Corner of Penn'a Ave." and "average height of snow 10-12 ft." Sig... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | View down snowy sidewalk towards men posing in snowbanks. Another man is standing and is carrying a shovel across his shoulders. A sign over the sidewalk r... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | Men posing sitting in snowbanks. A sign over the sidewalk along the left side reads: "Sheboygan Tribune." Written on back of stereograph: "Center St. looki... |
| Date: | 03 04 1881 |
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| Description: | View of men and children posing among snow banks. Commercial buildings are along the sidewalk on the right. Text on the back reads: "Center St. looking wes... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Herling Saw Mill and Dam Southeast elevation. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several buildings making up the Sheboygan Falls Tannery, which was owned by proprietor C.S. Weisse. Weisse is at the far right, standing w... |
| Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities |
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| Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality |
| Brief description fo the events surrounding Milwaukee's Third Ward fire of 1892. |
| Leart about Dutch immigration to Wisconsin, which peaked between 1840 and 1890 and was divided into Protestant and Catholic group. |
| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Learn about the Baptist congregations which began organizing in Wisconsin in the 1830s. |
| Land Speculator and Politician |
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| Brief biography of surveyor, land speculator, railroad promoter and politician Byron Kilbourn, twice elected mayor of Milwaukee. |
| Politician and Industrialist |
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| Biography of Walter Jodok Koher, politician and founder of the Kohler Company. |
| 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. |
| Imig Block, Sheboygan, Wisconsin |
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| Three owners participate in complex project to rehabilitate an 1882 elaborate Victorian Italianate style building. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Street scene with customers in front of the M.P. Roberts Drugstore and C. Baack Flour and Feed Store. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Charles Pfeifer stands on the entrance steps to the drugstore with his wife Emma Pfeifer, who holds a baby. Other children and adults pose with them. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground. |
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