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Arndt and Doty Street Intersection

Date: 1900
Description: Corner of Arndt and Doty streets, showing one of the early electric street cars in Wisconsin. The tower, the bottom of which shows in the picture, was one ...
Photograph

Electric Street Railway

Date: 1886
Description: The first electric street railway in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Streetcar

Date: 1917
Description: Mrs. Howie standing beside a horse-drawn streetcar of the Covington Line. The car is manned by a conductor.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 656-665

Date: 
Description: Let us be wrong in all our judgments

At that fine point We cannot quite believe
the steps between the superstitions
The feathers, the little e...
Photograph

Exterior View of Streetcar Home

Date: 12 12 1937
Description: Exterior view of old streetcar stabilized, adapted and furnished as living quarters.
Photograph

Streetcar MARGUERITE

Date: 1890
Description: Special open streetcar called the MARGUERITE, with elaborate lighting, decorations, movable chairs and other features.
Postcard

Coloma Business District

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of the business district. On the right is a streetcar, in the center is a horse and buggy, along with pedestrians and several commerc...
Photograph

Fire in the Wisconsin Building

Date: 01 13 1914
Description: Smoke billowing from windows on the State Street (left) and Carroll Street (right) sides of the Wisconsin Building. Fire fighters on ladders are working fr...
Photograph

Allis Chalmers Plant

Date: 1935
Description: Vines are growing on the facade of the Allis Chalmers factory which extends the full width of this view. There are automobiles and a street car in the back...
Photograph

Marching by Brandenburg Gate

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Description: Reservists marching by the Brandenburg Gate.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 05 13 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Waukau, Wis." An unpaved street with a street car and tracks running down the center. A church is on the left and a home...

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