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Aerial View of Superior

Date: 1960
Description: Aerial view with docks in the foreground. Caption reads: "Superior, Wisconsin."
Print

Illinois Steel Company

Date: 1892
Description: Milwaukee works. Long steel mill located on the bank of either a lake or a river. Multitudes of smokestacks, tracks, and small buildings.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1894
Description: Sanborn Map of the Illinois Steel Co. Bay View Works in Milwaukee.
Postcard

Some of the Manufacturing Industries of Beaver Dam

Date: 
Description: View of three factories; Upper Woolen Mill, Empire Rolling Mill, and Mallable Iron Co. Caption reads: "Some of the Manufacturing Industries of Beaver Dam."
Postcard

Beloit Iron Works and Rock River

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard view of the iron works and river. There is another factory on the opposite side of the river behind the trees on the right.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map Detail of Lake Mendota Area

Date: 1885
Description: A detail of a Sanborn map showing the lake Mendota shore area, including Madison Manufacturing Company.
Postcard

Souvenir Folder of Superior Wis.

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a souvenir folder of Superior. Caption on front reads: "Largest Iron Ore and Coal Docks in the World." A ship named "Ashcroft" is depicted l...
Postcard

General Office Building and Factory

Date: 1958
Description: Text on reverse reads: "General Office Building and Factory, 1958. West Bend Aluminum Co., West Bend, Wisconsin." Aerial view of the West Bend Aluminum Com...

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