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Railroad Construction

Date: 1890
Description: Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used.
Photograph

Hotel Chequamegon

Date: 1885
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
Photograph

Fountain House

Date: 1878
Description: Exterior view of the Fountain House.
Painting

Watertown

Date: 1841
Description: View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline.
Print

First Congregational Church

Date: 1854
Description: Exterior view of a First Congregational Church.
Photograph

Elevated View of Racine, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view of the downtown area looking northeast from the courthouse corner.
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 4 Little Chute

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 3 Grand Kakalau

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 5 Grand Chute

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 6 Winnebago Rapids

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 7

Date: 1840
Description: This map, one of a series made by Thomas Jefferson Cram of the U.S. Topographical Engineers from personal surveys, shows the portage connecting the Wiskons...
Photograph

2nd Wisconsin, Company C

Date: 1862
Description: Non-commissioned officers of Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin. From left to right they are W.S. Rouse, R. Ash, G.E. Smith, N.H. Whittemore, O.F. Crary, and J...
Photograph

Straw Lead Furnace

Date: 1880
Description: A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S...
Photograph

Science Hall

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view across Park Street of Science Hall. University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Part of the Chemical Laboratory building is on the right, and Mus...

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