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Loggers Top Loading a Log Bobsled

Date: 1900
Description: Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled.
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Loading Rock from Quarry

Date: 1894
Description: Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car.
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Astronaut Photograph

Date: 01 1967
Description: Astronaut James A. Lovell and his wife during a visit to Wisconsin. One measure of Lovell's celebrity status is the fact that it is Wisconsin's governor, ...
Painting

A Sunday on the High Seas during my Crossing to America

Date: 1856
Description: The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful...
Painting

The New Synagogue in Ward II

Date: 1858
Description: A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt...
Painting

On the Trip to the Mammoth Cave

Date: 1858
Description: Hölzlhuber journeyed from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there took a train south to Cave City, from which passengers boarded a stagecoach for t...
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A Ride on a Hand-Car on the Great Western Railway, Canada

Date: 1858
Description: "One of the most interesting expeditions which I have ever made in my life was a trip on a hand-car," Hölzlhuber wrote. Julius Movius, the General Agent fo...
Painting

Flersheim's Whisky Distillery and Cattle Farm

Date: 1858
Description: Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi...
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A Journey on the Steamer 'Milwaukee'

Date: 1860
Description: In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee
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Joe Barry's Farm, A Day's Journey to the South of Odanah

Date: 1858
Description: Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest....
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Denniston House

Date: 1900
Description: Denniston House, P.J. Schnorrenberg, proprietor. View across railroad tracks of the hotel entrance with porch. A man and three women are standing on the po...
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International Tractor with Trailer and Tank

Date: 02 11 1928
Description: A man uses an McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to pull a large trailer with a large tank down a street in a commercial area. The text on the sign above a...
Photograph

East Asian McCormick-Deering Equipment

Date: 02 04 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat is sitting behind the wheel of a tractor or thresher[?] powered by a McCormick-Deering engine. The machine has East Asian lettering on ...
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River Grove Meat Market

Date: 1921
Description: View from across street of two men in butchers' aprons standing outside the River Grove Meat Market storefront.
Print

Joyeux Noel!

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre...
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Engine No. 489

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Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 489. Five railroad employees stand in front of the locomotive.
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Appropriations Bill Signing

Date: 11 13 1997
Description: President Bill Clinton signing the FY 1998 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriation Bill. Behind the President are Vice President Al Gore and Wisconsin Cong...
Print

The Home of Julius Koehler

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card created to promote agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. This piece displays Julius Koehler, a man, and a woman in the flourishing ga...
Print

The Gile Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Illustration of a man using the Gile tractor in a farm field.
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Madison Bicycle Club

Date: 1897
Description: Portrait of a large group of mostly men in touring clothes posed outdoors with bicycles.

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