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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi...
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Flood on Bay City Creek

Date: 1920
Description: Aftermath of the Bay City Creek flood.
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Longwell House

Date: 1920
Description: The Longwell house, residence of Hugh Longwell. It was used for the first school in Somers Township.
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Eli G. Runal Home

Date: 1900
Description: The house of Eli G. Runal, now part of the Willowbrook Sanatarium.
Photograph

Waukesha Co. Newspaper's First Home

Date: 
Description: View of the Waukesha County newspaper's first home.
Photograph

High Street

Date: 1895
Description: View from sidewalk across unpaved High Street in Mineral Point. There is a large clock hanging above the sidewalk on the right.
Photograph

St. John's-in-the-Wilderness Episcopal Church

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of St. John's-in-the-Wilderness Episcopal Church, looking towards the altar.
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Doty Loggery

Date: 1936
Description: Doty's Loggery, built by James Duane Doty, about 1844-45. Side view with fence.
Drawing

Street View

Date: 
Description: View of street. People walking and riding on horse and buggies. One building reads "E. SMTH'S BLOCK".
Photograph

Mitchell-Rountree House

Date: 1945
Description: A view of the Mitchell-Rountree house. Built in 1837 for the Rev. Samueal Mitchell under the direction of his daughter's husband, Major John H. roundtree, ...
Print

McCormick Reaper Advertising Brochure

Date: 1862
Description: Cover of a British advertising brochure for "McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine, (of which 50,000 have now been made in the United States) with his new...
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Railroad Redoubt, Vicksburg

Date: 1900
Description: Railroad redoubt seen from the north showing the slope where General Grant's column charged on May 22, 1863, during the siege of Vicksburg.
Photograph

Nixon Meets the Press

Date: 02 06 1969
Description: President Richard Nixon fields a question from UPI's Merriman Smith, the dean of the White House correspondents. Smith was particularly known for closing p...
Photograph

Important Interview

Date: 1947
Description: John J. McCoy, U.S. Commissioner in Germany being interviewed by Mutual news analyst Cecil Brown. Brown made his reputation during the post-World War II ye...
Photograph

Unidentified Civil War Group

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of unidentified Civil War veterans around a cannon. Probably a Grand Army of the Republic reunion.
Photograph

Veterans of Company I, 29th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1887
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the Veterans of Company I, 29th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at a Grand Army of the Republic reunion. Center group, standing, fr...
Photograph

4-Row Corn Planter Demonstration

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: A group of men, women, and children are standing in a field at an International Harvester Company farm to watch a 4-row corn planter demonstration.
Book or Pamphlet

Morrisdale Coal Company's Shaft

Date: 
Description: A view of the Morrisdale Coal Company's shaft showing surface buildings before the fire of December 15, 1899.
Photograph

Burned Cutover Land

Date: 
Description: Charred stumps and cut trunks of trees in the foreground with unburned forest in the distance.
Book or Pamphlet

N.C. Thompson Advertising Booklet

Date: 1880
Description: Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator."

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