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First Artesian Well in DePere

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde...
Photograph

Old Bridge Area Manufacturing Plants

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ...
Photograph

Village House

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of an unpaved main street, with the Village House across the street in the center background. Wooden buildings and wooden sidewalks are on bo...
Photograph

De Pere House Hotel Register

Date: 08 1871
Description: Caption reads: "Photocopy of the hotel register at the De Pere House De Pere Wis from Friday August 4 to Tuesday August 8 1871. Among names to be noted are...
Document

Green Bay Public Land Sale

Date: 1838
Description: Broadside advertising the public sale of land at Green Bay, issued by Martin Van Buren.
Map or Atlas

Pittsfield Photostat Map

Date: 1875
Description: A map of Pittsfield, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Residential Street

Date: 1899
Description: Residential street, North Broadway at Cass Street.
Photograph

View of De Pere

Date: 1875
Description: View over town looking east from the railroad station.
Photograph

Elevated View Over De Pere

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view over De Pere. In the foreground is the De Pere News Office and Post Office building. Behind it people are walking on the bridge over the Fox ...
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 925

Date: 1896
Description: Railroad employees pose with locomotive engine no. 925 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The engine has a long pilot, a large oil headlight, sm...
Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Print

Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
Description: A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ...
Photograph

Cyclists and Pedestrians

Date: 1890
Description: Two men ride their bicycles past curious on-lookers.
Print

Menominee War Dance

Date: 1842
Description: Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail...
Postcard

Long Tail Point Lighthouse

Date: 1898
Description: View across field towards the lighthouse and other buildings among trees. Caption reads: "Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis."
Map or Atlas

De Pere, Wis.

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye map of De Pere.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1835
Description: Ink on tracing paper map of Green Bay, Wisconsin and nearby areas, Lake Winnebago, Fox and Wolf Rivers, and the junctions of the Mississippi and Wisconsin ...
Photograph

Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin

Date: 1885
Description: Eleazer William's log cabin, five miles south of De Pere, overlooking the rapids of the Little Bakalin on the Fox River.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Village of Greenleaf, Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1873
Description: A plat of the village of Greenleaf, Brown County, Wisconsin, showing the areas from Taintor Street to Day Street and Follett Street to Deuster Street. Inc...

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