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Bird's-Eye View of Reedsburg

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Reedsburg, on the Baraboo River.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of River Falls

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map of River Falls.
Map or Atlas

Perspective Map of the City of Superior, Wis.

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Watertown on the Rock River, "drawn from nature."
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...
Map or Atlas

Wauwatosa and the Western Suburbs of Milwaukee

Date: 1892
Description: Color bird's-eye map of Wauwatosa, looking east toward Milwaukee and Lake Michigan. Predominantly green with cream colored roadways, with six land plots ow...
Photograph

Central High School Entrance

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: View of the Central High School entrance arch at 214 Wisconsin Avenue. Ivy is growing around the entrance, and is obscuring the carved letters of "High Sch...
Photograph

Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...
Photograph

Jackie Hooray Eating Purity Doughnuts

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Jackie Hooray eating Purity doughnuts at Gardner Baking Company.
Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester's McCormick line of harvesting machinery, including grain binders, reapers, hay rakes and mowers featuring c...
Book or Pamphlet

Acme-Hodges Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Acme Harvester Company featuring an illustration of an owl depicting "Acme-Hodges Wisdom." Acme manufactured the Ho...
Book or Pamphlet

Weber Wagon Catalog

Date: 1919
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Weber farm wagons. Features a color illustration of two men with a Weber wagon hitched to a horse. Text reads: "Looks G...
Print

Baraboo, Wis. County Seat of Sauk Co.

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye map of Baraboo with inset of Devil's Lake, the south and east sides of the commercial square, the First National Bank, and the Warren House hote...
Print

English and Mermaids

Date: 1655
Description: Scene of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614 showing men at the water's edge being beckoned by mermaids.
Photograph

North Michigan Avenue at Ontario Street

Date: 1933
Description: Street scene in Chicago of North Michigan Avenue and Ontario Street looking north. The historic Water Tower is in the background.
Print

A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Photograph

Distributing Christmas Turkeys at Deering Works

Date: 
Description: Men standing among piles of turkeys ready for distribution at International Harvester's Deering Works. The turkeys were distributed as Christmas gifts. The...
Photograph

Warren F.B. Gardner and Horlick's Malted Milk Bottles

Date: 10 17 1913
Description: Warren Fenn Bodurtha Gardner, almost 5, poses with empty Horlick's Malted Milk bottles in appreciation to Horlick's. Young Gardner's mother died shortly af...
Photograph

Warren F. B. Gardner Poses with Horlick's Malted Milk Bottles

Date: 10 17 1913
Description: Warren Fenn Bodurtha Gardner, almost 5, poses with empty Horlick's Malted Milk bottles as testament to the benefits of drinking Horlick's. Young Gardner's ...
Photograph

Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...

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