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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Flom Hotel or American House, located at 323 East Main Street at the corner of South Hancock Street, existed from 1865 to 1925. Attached to the buildin... |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting in a carriage in front of a Madison hotel known as both the Flom Hotel and the American House. The Flom Hotel, built in 1865, was locat... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards the Blair House. Caption reads: "Blair House, The Travelingman's Home, Blair, Wis." |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A drawing of the American House, 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the American House at 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Flom Hotel or American House, 323 East Main Street, at the corner of South Hancock Street. The Vilas House, whose conveyance stands in front, was a riv... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | The annex to the Windiate Hotel was originally built adjacent to the Hotel at the east, but the annex was moved a block south. It is now a saloon and roomi... |
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| Description: | View across street toward the Hotel Tarmo, a boarding house. Caption reads: "1402 North Third St., Tarmo Boarding House, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A pioneer Scandinavian immigrant hotel on Clinton Street, south side, built before the Civil War. Posters are a board on the left side of the house, and a... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fireman Orrin Zebarth is shown at the foot of the narrow, steep front stairs which occupants were forced to use when flames cut off escape routes at the re... |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across sandy beach with grasses toward a group of people standing near the staircase to what appears to be a large boarding house or hotel. The first ... |
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| Description: | A mailman in a horse-drawn vehicle delivers mail to the mailbox of a rural boarding house. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi... |
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| Description: | View down Fourth Avenue, lined with a row of high Victorian style rooming houses. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A brochure with a map showing the North-Western Railway lines from northern Illinois, starting at Chicago, to southeastern Wisconsin, stopping at Sheboygan... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms, which has a porch and a balcony. Signs in front advertise rooms, bath and garage for 75 cents per person, ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms, which is a private home with rooms for tourists, with a screened-in porch, and a balcony. Two children are stan... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Side lawn of Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms. Children are sitting in the lawn swing in the foreground, and another lawn swing is in the background next to the g... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a home that provides rooms and baths for tourists for 75 cents and $1. There is a porch in the front and and in the back. Trees are in the... |
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