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Island Resorts at the Wisconsin Dells

Date: 07 1927
Description: Car parked underneath the entrance gate to the Island Resort at the Wisconsin Dells, 25 miles from the Dells on Highway 12-16 near Mauston. Entrance gate a...
Photograph

Car Advertisement

Date: 
Description: A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town.
Photograph

Angle Worm Station

Date: 1873
Description: View from the foot of Carroll Street with the Angle Worm Station at Barnes boat landing on Lake Monona. Shows the Scutt II taken from the first succ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Print

Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way

Date: 1886
Description: Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean....
Photograph

International Tractor Family Group Shot

Date: 1971
Description: Color advertising photograph of the International tractor family arranged for display around a rural creek. Tractors include (from front, clockwise): Farma...
Photograph

High Water on River

Date: 1905
Description: View of the river and town. High water looking west. Site of the present dam, but this was the old roller dam. Building with an advertisement for Veterinar...
Photograph

Bridge Over River

Date: 1910
Description: Bridge in the downtown area crossing the Milwaukee River. City buildings reach into the background, with the farthest fading out. Many people are crossin...
Photograph

Buildings Along Milwaukee River

Date: 1940
Description: View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s...
Photograph

Milwaukee River from Bridge

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br...
Photograph

Motorboat on Milwaukee River

Date: 1914
Description: View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building...
Photograph

Commercial Area near Lake Michigan

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The...
Print

La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
Photograph

Milwaukee River Bank

Date: 1914
Description: View of downtown Milwaukee riverbank before the First National Bank was built in 1914. Advertising painted on the sides of buildings includes B. Mock & So...
Photograph

Rowboat and Ferry

Date: 05 26 1894
Description: A rowboat full of passengers floats alongside a ferry, which travels between Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and Rising Sun, Indiana. On the side of the ferry are s...
Photograph

Cave In Rock

Date: 06 07 1894
Description: A large cave in the rock palisade along the river. An advertisement for St. Jacobs Oil is painted above the entrance to the cave.
Print

McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved illustration of an elevated view of the "McCormick Reaper & Mower Works." Ships are on Lake Michigan in the background.
Photograph

Flooded Woods near Wisconsin River

Date: 04 17 1965
Description: Flooded woods near the Wisconsin River. A sign for "The Dutch Kitchen" at Hotel Meyers is nailed to one of the trees.
Postcard

Flood at Black River Falls

Date: 10 06 1911
Description: View of Monsos Brothers Grocery & Crockery after most of the building was washed away by the flooding Black River. High, rushing water can be seen on the r...
Photograph

Two Women on Bridge

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Description: View from road of two women posing standing on a bridge. Both women are wearing black skirts/dresses and capes along with elaborate hats. Behind them is th...

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