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Polo Players

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Description: Polo horses take graceful strides as two players vie to hit the ball at Joy Farms.
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 1884
Description: View of buildings in Delafield, with two men and a dog standing near a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: A large, white brick building is in the middle center, surrounded by trees. A smaller white building is in the right background. In front of the building...
Photograph

Eagle Depot and Yards

Date: 1924
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the Eagle train depot. A number of pedestrians are around the depot. On the left near the road, two men stand in front of...
Photograph

Street Scene, Biplane Superimposed

Date: 1910
Description: Street in Genesee Depot, with superimposed biplane flying low overhead.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Keystone Farms

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Description: View of barn, house, and outbuildings at Keystone Farms, owned by Owen W. Rolands.
Postcard

Hartford

Date: 09 25 1905
Description: View down center of unpaved, busy city street, with several horse-drawn vehicles parked along the curbs.
Postcard

Koelch Resort, Pike Lake

Date: 1909
Description: View along shoreline towards the Koelch Resort. There is a sailboat and rowboats in the lake near a pier. Horses are standing under the trees at the shorel...
Photograph

Asahel Spring

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a group of men and women relaxing around a spring with concentric steps of limestone. The man on the right, holding the dipper, is Dr. Hugo ...
Photograph

Farm Elm

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Description: A man is posing in a horse-drawn buggy on the drive in front of a tree-lined fence. Caption on slide reads: "Farm elm near Waukesha, Wis." Hand-tinted lant...
Postcard

Depot

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Description: The depot at Menomonee Falls. Passengers are on the platform, and a train is on one set of the railroad tracks. Two men are near a handcar on the parallel ...
Postcard

Nashotah Depot

Date: 1910
Description: An elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train depot at Nashotah. A woman is standing on the wooden sidewalk at left, near a small shelter. ...
Postcard

Red Circle Inn

Date: 1910
Description: A real photo postcard of the two-story, wood frame Red Circle Inn. There are two women, one of whom is holding a child, on the open first floor front porch...
Photograph

Tower View

Date: 1900
Description: Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s...
Photograph

Riding

Date: 1926
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder is holding the reins of a horse ridden by her older son, Herbert E. Brumder (left), and another boy, possibly Herb...
Photograph

Riding

Date: 1934
Description: Two unidentified women riding horses with English saddles in the shallow water near the shore of Pine Lake. The women are wearing light-colored jodhpurs an...

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