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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1889
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a buffalo gazing down upon men with harvesting m...
Photograph

Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Cart Crosses Bridge

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of bridge crossing the wide Fox River, with the paper mill on the far side of the river, and a horse-drawn cart approaching the near side.
Photograph

Tank Cottage on the River

Date: 1889
Description: Distant view of the cottage across the river, with reeds in the foreground. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before the restoration.
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View from the top of St. Willobrord's Church

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of Fox River and South Washington Street, from the top of St. Willobrord's Church.
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Northwest View of Washington Street and the Fox River

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of Washington Street and the Fox River and buildings nearby.
Photograph

View over Fox River

Date: 1889
Description: View of Green Bay from the Fort Howard side of the Fox River.
Photograph

View of the Harbor

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view looking north toward the harbor with multiple buildings in the foreground.
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Elevated View from St. Willibrord's Church

Date: 1889
Description: View of Green Bay from the top of St. Willibrord's Church. A river can be seen in the background.
Photograph

Elevated View of Fox River

Date: 1889
Description: Southwest view of the Fox River and the waterfront.
Photograph

Industrial Waterfront and Fox River

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of an industrial waterfront along the Fox River.
Photograph

View of the Fox River

Date: 1889
Description: View of the Fox River between Green Bay and Fort Howard.
Photograph

Marquette's Well

Date: 1889
Description: Cross in a field marking the area of "Marquette's well."
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Tonyawatha Spring Hotel Grounds

Date: 1889
Description: From a map published by Angell and Hastreither, the drawing depicts the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel grounds on Lake Monona. The hotel, located in Blooming Grov...
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Viaduct

Date: 1889
Description: Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct on the line along the Milwaukee River. The viaduct has two arched passages, and stones and rocks lining the path f...
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Mason Street

Date: 1889
Description: Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Onalaska

Date: 1889
Description: Map of the city of Onalaska, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Railroad and County Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1889
Description: A map that shows the railroad's lines in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Those that are marked with a red line are those...
Map or Atlas

Map of Douglas County, Wisconsin

Date: 1889
Description: This 1889 map of Douglas County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, existing and proposed railroads...
Map or Atlas

City of Milwaukee

Date: 1889
Description: Bird’s-eye-view map. Published in the Milwaukee Sentinel: Wednesday morning, August 28, 1889 for the 23rd National Encampments of the GAR, August 27...

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