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Wisconsin Central Railway Locomotive no. 221

Date: 1898
Description: Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive no. 221, the first "big engine" on the Wisconsin Central. Built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1898, and later ren...
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Train

Date: 1903
Description: Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive No. 207 and train No. 6 and the depot. The locomotive was built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1890, and scrapped i...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View of unpaved Main Street, with horse-drawn vehicles along the curbs.
Postcard

Holy Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi...
Postcard

Catholic Church

Date: 1918
Description: A Catholic Church in West Bend. Caption reads: "Catholic Church, Parsonage and Sister Home, West Bend, Wis."
Photograph

Kissel War Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr...
Photograph

World War I Trucks

Date: 1918
Description: Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o...
Print

Kissel Ad

Date: 1928
Description: Advertisement from "Motor Age" magazine for the new White Eagle Speedster manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. With 115 ho...
Photograph

Kissel Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock.
Photograph

Kissel Truck

Date: 1919
Description: Kissel truck owned by Washington County entering a gravel pit.
Photograph

Fifty Kissel Taxis

Date: 08 07 1929
Description: A line of fifty "Bradford Cabs" manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "'Bradford Cabs' built by the Kissel Mo...
Map or Atlas

Germantown Township Map

Date: 1859
Description: Plat map of the Germantown Township.
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Polk Township

Date: 1915
Description: Plat map of Polk township in Washington County.
Print

Kissel Car Ad

Date: 06 1927
Description: An advertisement for the Kissel Custom Built Car published in the June, 1927 issue of the "Wisconsin Motorist" magazine, page 13. The company was the Kisse...
Print

Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Washington County, Wisconsin, with a Native American man wearing buckskin clothes and leggings ...
Postcard

View of Milwaukee River on Road from Barton to West Bend

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Description: Colorized postcard view of the Milwaukee River from the road. There are buildings in the background on the right. Caption reads: "View of Milwaukee River o...
Postcard

St. Marys Church, School and Parsonage

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the church, with a parsonage on the left and a school on the right. A fenced-in field is across the street and an automobile ...
Map or Atlas

Barton, Washington County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This bird’s-eye-view map of Barton is indexed for parochial and public schools, churches, a convent, the railroad depot, and the post office.
Postcard

Harnsward Lodge, Little Cedar Lake

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Description: View across lake towards Harnsward Lodge, with a group of people in bathing suits sitting on the landing of the boathouse. Caption reads: "Harnsward Lodge,...
Photograph

Timmer's Resort, Cedar Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored view across field towards Timmer's Resort, with a water tower and a windmill in the background. There is an automobile parked by a fence in th...

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