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Drawing

American House

Date: 1860
Description: Engraving of the American House at 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868.
Photograph

Original Location of Second Ward High School

Date: 1920
Description: First location of the high school at 301-303 Fifth Street. Consists of two house-sized buildings, with the entrances close to each other. Sign on front of ...
Photograph

Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, located at the rear of the city garage, where a fire killed Florence Dinger and three of her children.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 
Description: View of Main Street. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a man on horseback are in the street. Business signs read: "(obscured) Boarding House," "Pete's ...
Photograph

Patch Grove Main Street

Date: 1912
Description: View down Main Street. On the left is a barn covered with circus broadsides. Across the street is a building with a storefront and awning, and a sign that ...
Postcard

Main Street Big Falls

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard view down center of unpaved street in the central business district of a rural community. On the left is a general store, and on the ...
Photograph

Hubert Schmitz Boarding House, Hubert Schmitz Building, and Nicholas Weber Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards three buildings. The building on the far left is historically the Hubert Schmitz Boarding House, and is now Ethel Wood's ...

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